CLICK BELOW: to send BEN a little love on the road.

Download AIMAIM Remote
Send me an Instant Message
Send me an Email
Add Remote to Your Page
Download AOL Instant Messenger



CLICK HERE: to send comments, info, hate mail, little bits o' love?

Check out the all NEW Sacklunch.com Reading List Featuring Books We've been reading lately.


SEARCH THE SACK.


Ben Marcus' Road To Nowhere (a.k.a. Alaska Journal) Click Here.

 
Click here to ADD SACKLUNCH to your AvantGo Channel List!
And read it on your PALM, WINDOWS CE, or WAP enabled device.


Try AOL FREE! 500 Hours


See the ugly logo above? Sign up for AOL and we get $15. Come on, support the cause. Do it now.



Latest Update: July 2, 2001 by Ben Marcus

17:09 MT MONDAY, JULY 2, 2001 A KINKOS IN BOISE IDAHO.

ODOMETER TRIP METER

MONEY Four new Pirelli Scorpions at Sears: $420.00.
Gas at Texaco in Hailey. $ 40.00 (-$20 from Jeff)

I grumble about shopping malls a lot, but sometimes they come in handy. Today I found a shopping mall in Boise, a very hot, flat place that seems to be one big shopping mall, and bought four new Pirelli Scorpion All Terrain tires at Sears. I also found a Kinkos to check my e-mail, and IÍm hoping the Gateway store can sell me a cigarette lighter charger adapter for this computer.

We got out of Ketchum late this morning, after Jeff couldnÍt hook up with a friend of his who was going to Boise. I didnÍt mind. I wanted to get tires wherever, so I drove Jeff to Boise.

We had to be there at about 13:55 and we left at 11:00 so it was close. Got stuck behind some farm machinery and such, but we were rolling after a while, using the 75 MPH speed limit to make up time.

Jeff was a little stressed, but he talked about the business deals heÍs going to swing back in Seattle to get his magazine Frequency going. ItÍs a snowboard magazine kind of like The SurferÍs Journal. Minimal advertising, with minimal advertiser influence in the editorial.

About two-thirds of the way there Jeff gave me a Daiwa fly reel in lieu of some dough he owed me. That suited me fine. He also gave me $20 for gas. What a noice goy.

I was heading to Boise hoping to buy tires and a new power inverter and a floor jack and some tire repair stuff with my Sears card, but first I had to get Jeff to the airport.

Idaho is very, very dry. It is mostly desert and today was very hot and blue.

Once out of the mountains the landscape is dry as a bone except where rivers flow. WE passed some historical signs and some nice ranches and that was about it. The rest was desert.

We made it to the airport around 13:40, just in the nick of time. Jeff said a quick ñgoodbyeî as he ran to the gate and I was on my own again.

I found a Sears, finally after driving around and around a shopping mall in Boise. I was hoping to use my Sears card to buy the lot, but I only had $107 credit. So I got the $300 from an ATM and called Dan for an emergency loan. He offered to buy the tires as a birthday present. HeÍs a noice goy.

So I got the tires put on for $420 and now IÍm in Kinkos reading 27 e-mails and sending the mish mosh of journal entries from the last few days.

IÍm going to drive back to Sun Valley soon because Ike is running around alone and some of my camping stuff is there to keep the space. A lot of people will be coming into town for July 4 and prime spots like mine might get taken.

On the way in IÍm going to check in at the playhouse in Hailey where Bruce Willis is performing True West.

IÍll probably hang around Sun Valley until after the Fourth of July, then IÍm going to take Highway 93 back through Challis, up through Salmon and all the way to the Canadian border. IÍm going to aim for Yakutat and hope the Alaska trip comes through.

Right now my mom is looking into ferries to Yakutat and the legalities of bringing a cat into Canada.

IÍve got to pressure Evan to send me money quick, but he liked the Jay story so maybe it wonÍt be so hard.

Gotta get out of here. How can people live in Boise? It is so fricking hot here.

 



TRAVELS WITH IKE
July 2, 2001
July 1 a, 2001
July 1, 2001
June 30, 2001

June 28, 2001
June 25-26, 2001
June 24, 2001
June 23, 2001
June 22, 2001
June 21, 2001
June 20, 2001
June 19, 2001
June 18, 2001
June 17-18, 2001
June 16, 2001
June 15, 2001
June 14 , 2001

NORTH COAST
March 14, 2001
March 11, 2001

March 8, 2001
March 4, 2001
March 3, 2001
March 1, 2001
February 20, 2001
February 19, 2001
February 18, 2001

February 17, 2001

February 16, 2001


ALASKA 2000
November 19, 2000
November 18, 2000

November 15, 2000
November 14, 2000
November 14, 2000
November 12-13, 2000
November 11, 2000
November 9, 2000
November 8, 2000
November 4-6, 2000
November 3, 2000
November 1, 2000
October 31, 2000
October 29, 2000
October 27, 2000
October 26, 2000
October 25, 2000
October 22, 2000
October 22, 2000
October 21, 2000
October 19, 2000
October 17, 2000
October 16, 2000
October 16, 2000
October 14, 2000
October 12, 2000
October 11, 2000
October 10, 2000
October 10, 2000
October 9, 2000
October 8, 2000
October 7, 2000
October 6, 2000
October 6, 2000
October 5, 2000
October 4, 2000
October 3, 2000
October 2, 2000
October 1, 2000
September 30, 2000
September 29, 2000
September 28, 2000
September 27, 2000
September 25, 2000
September 24, 2000
September 23, 2000
September 22, 2000
September 21, 2000
September 21, 2000
September 20, 2000
September 19, 2000
September 19, 2000
September 18, 2000
September 17, 2000
September 16, 2000
September 15, 2000
September 15, 2000
September 14, 2000
September 13, 2000
September 12, 2000
September 10, 2000
September 10, 2000
September 8, 2000

September 8, 2000

PHOTOS
October 1, 2000
October 1, 2000
September 27, 2000

 

[an error occurred while processing this directive]