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.
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