Tuesday, and it’s time for another longer training walk this morning. The days are quickly slipping by and it’s only 26 days and 1+ hour before the start of the Portland Marathon. I read that they were going to add a thousand more runners/walkers to the mix this year, bringing the total up to over 14,000 contestants. It will be mighty crowded at the starting line! Funny, it’s the only time that I enjoy a crowd.
I also spent some time looking through the news headlines and found nothing new and startling. The human condition is still the same, no one in power has learned anything from history and so the wars continue. In fact, if this were the year 1506 and if headlines were available…they would look eerily familiar.
But, in a “good” news story, the headlines state that the owners of the Steamboat Arabia museum have found another steamboat to dig up. We have been to the Kansas City museum to see what was onboard the Arabia and found it fascinating! These are people who take their history seriously.
And speaking of history…recent history. I was talking to my daughter and recounting the story of how we would stop at some desert “oasis” to get a soft drink from an old cooler filled with icy cold water. This was back in the 40’s and early 50’s when we would travel through the Mojave Desert on our way to Lake Tahoe. Afterwards, I realized that my story didn’t include all of the facts. Facts that make the story. Such as the fact that our 1947 Oldsmobile that held a family of 6, had no air conditioning. The fact that Highway 395 was a narrow off-camber track and the trip to Tahoe would usually take 12 to 13 hours. Ah, history!
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