March 4th

Waking up, me and mike were not impressed at all. I ended up with an ear infection and cough after the horrible sleep and we were about to turn back to Moscow and say screw this. I felt like my sickness was only going to develop into something worse and Mike was just straight pissed off after the awful night. Instead of heading back we decided just to play it out, so Mike stopped at a coffee shop and i got some sleep inside while he got some work done. Mike had discussions with a few people while i was just laying down trying to sleep with a jacket over my eyes. He met one very nice girl at the coffee shop who got us free coffee and talked with us about what we were doing when she got off work. After about 30 minutes of talking to her she gave us 5 bucks so that I could get some cold medicine at safeway. I really owe her one!

All fresh and clean! The day is starting to look brighter. The day really picked up here and we had a rockin time! We found food, friends and a place to stay. The town of (Courvalles??) was amazing. We headed down to stores to get some food and lodging and this is what happened:

It was about 10 pm and we kiiinda had a place lined up to sleep at. We werent 100% sure on the stability of Chris (the guy we met in the sandwich shoppe) letting us stay at his place. We were contemplating sleeping in this secret passage up a ladder in safeway we saw earlier that day. Suddenly i got a call and turns out his roomates were cool with us crashing there. Thinking we were going to catch up on sleep once we got there we instead got invited to a party on the other side of campus. We didnt decline and walked all the way there (where our host was hanging out). We arrived and Chris saw we walked, unfortunately we realized chris was relying on us to bring a car so we could drive him back lol. Me and Mike met some rad Oregonians there, and we later went to a dive bar where police were walking in and out of to find a guy who had a warrant out for his arrest followed by a mexican restaurant that had health code violations and had to change its name twice. It was first called something like "La Banga" but then they changed it to "La Canga" lol. Saving paint.