afternoon & rescue the parched, the
thristy, the foolish and we speed by
truck to Enterprise, OR readying
ourselves for a Snake River raft trip
scheduled for Friday.
depressed and removed from the grandeur
of the Lochsa, the Clearwater, the Lolo
Pass. You would never think that this is a
gateway eastward to the mountains folds.
This is a distinctly Corporate town with
many homogenized, greyed buildings and
people indoors on these hot 109 day.
Thursday was predicted to be 5 degrees
cooler.
A sunset on the 24th was followed by a large
dense cloud that was kept at bay by the heat
and not a drop of rain survived falling on the
side walks despite the water balloon above that must have stretched for miles east, north
and south.
The Snake River contains Lewiston from
ever growing west. The high grades or roads
surround the outskirts like a coliseum wall
keeping the humidity, the factories, the
granaries hemmed in. It is a worker town.
be 300 lbs.! He worked for a vision insurance
company...imagine that: a 'bent riding eye
doctor meeting a 'bent riding vision insurance
employee. The world is small. We rode about
10 miles along the Snake and back again to the major bridge connecting the Clarkston, WA
community and Lewiston, ID town.
local gossip about a fellow who would come into the
'diner' and be too friendly to the waitress.
My dear friends Otto and Martine picked me up at the
Clarkston Library (air conditioned and internet access).
We streaked down the highway on the Washington &
Oregon sides of the Snake River to Enterprise, OR
arriving tired and exposed to beautiful mountains lit
gracefully. I drove. It was very bizarre for me to be going
65 miles an hour or even 35 mph. It simply didn't allow to
me to look at what was around. It was such a contrast
and so disorienting to be zooming through new environs
without really being able to pay attention. Ah our fast
lives. What a Luddite I had become.
Finally to sleep in a motel after the jarring contrast of a
bike ride snaking between Lewiston & Clarkston and
then transforming into a truck driving man.
Thursday End.
