Aylmer Express "MoHo" Extravaganza 2006

After spending 4 wonderful days at Tracy and Tony’s fabulous new home we unfortunately had to extricate ourselves and re-enter the cozy confines of the MoHo in order to carry on with our tour. They treated us like kings and we all had a great time in Seattle. The only downside was that there were some many more things we wanted to do. It reminds me of a typical Saturday in the summer. You have a list of things to do and you get started. Then your kids need you to help you with things or they need a drive somewhere. Then you start to cut the lawn but you are out of gas for the lawn mower. So then you head off to get some gas and you decide you should pick up a couple of more things while you are out. Then you bump into a friend and have a little chat. Then you get back home and you start into the lawn and your neighbour pops by. You get into a conversation and the next thing you know you’re sitting on your deck together having a beer. The end result is that you had a good time and you do manage to get something done but you still have a list of things left to do. Seattle was sort of like that for us. On our way out today we were thinking of making a third attempt at the Space Needle before we head out given that we had missed getting to it as of yet. But, as luck would have it, today turned out to be the first day of rain since we were here. So not really ideal weather for checking out views of the city and surrounding mountains. So Seattle will definitely be a place we need to return to some day. After re-packing the car, which we basically treat as a trailer when we pull it behind the MoHo, and re-packing the MoHo, it was approaching noon. Our usual speedy departure.
I almost had to floor the MoHo just to get up the hill that starts at the garage behind Tracy and Tony’s house which continues all the way up as their road ascends to the next street. It was a successful take off and we leveled out once we hung a right at the top. Then we stopped to attach the Matrix and we were off. Luckily the rain had let up but it was still very overcast for our trip which took us down I-5 all the way past the capital, Olympia (see the cupola of the State Capital building we saw from the highway?) to Oregon where we stopped just after we crossed the border at a campground in a northern suburb of Portland. I think my lack of sleep from staying up late every night for the last few days caught up with me and I had not felt this level of languor in quite some time. Tonight would be an early one. Once we settled in at the campsite we found that we had wireless internet connectivity in the MoHo … awesome! But after a while we also found that we were on the direct flight path to and from the Portland airport. Not so awesome. I guess you can’t have everything.

Today’s word:

languor \LANG-guhr; LANG-uhr\, noun:1. Mental or physical weariness or fatigue.2. Listless indolence, especially the indolence of one who is satiated by a life of luxury or pleasure.3. A heaviness or oppressive stillness of the air.