Olympia failure
18.06.2008 – 19:16That’s probably the shortest post ever. I went to Olympia, Washington after Seattle. I already booked my greyhound and was about to get up early, when Mel, the nice roommate of my Seattle host, told me she’s gong to drive down anyway and could give me a ride. That’s way more fun than Greyhound and so I got to Olympia with her and she dropped me of at my hosts place. Driving away she shouted “Give me a call, when something goes wrong and you can stay at my parents place.”
That’s exactly what happened. I could not reach my host for already two days. He neither replied to emails, nor answered his phone. And now I was sitting on his porch, calling his landline and hearing the phone inside. But nobody was around to open the door. So after sitting there several hours calling his mobile over and over and getting cold, I decided to go for Mel’s offer and stay at their place for the night and get down to Portland early.
So Mel showed me around Olympia next morning and I got on the Amtrak in the afternoon. Getting down to Portland. Which was one of these nice things that happen just because they have to. Portland was amazing. Stay tuned.