Weather-dependent for me too. I'm planning on staying in Portland for one or two nights, driving down to Newberg for the hotdogs...I mean, for the car show.
Gas prices have dropped! Woo hoo!
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Weather-dependent for me too. I'm planning on staying in Portland for one or two nights, driving down to Newberg for the hotdogs...I mean, for the car show.
Gas prices have dropped! Woo hoo!
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It'll be a rare occurance if it rains on that day. They choose it because it has only rained like 3times in the last 15years or something like that, but still no guarantee. Gas was $3.03 on Friday! (It dropped like .20 in 3days)Originally Posted by PHO2GR4
If you don't first THINK THINK, you could end up in deep DO DO!
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Speaking of Oregon and gasoline...
...why do they still insist on pumping your gas for you? The first time I ever drove through, I started pumping my own fuel and the attendant just about had a heart attack.
This is 2007, and frankly it's kind of creepy that they're still holding on to that tradition.
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The gas station owners in Olympia haven't read the news. Shell just down the road in town was STILL at $3.35 Sunday afternoon.
Newberg forcast for Saturday: partly cloudy with a chance for showers. High around 70. Sounds like a safe bet forcast, whatever it does, you were right with your forcast.
So Eric, know where your staying yet?
Greetings, Earthling. We come in peace... Never mind "Paris to Dakar", the VehiCROSS looks ready for the Martian desert.
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Not highjacking, but on the "other side of the river" I waited and waited for attendants sitting in the comfort of their mini store to reset a pump and I've gone into the store as many as four times trying to get them to reset the pump, without them getting it right. Not to mention several different types of pumps and procedures for starting them.
I pumped gas when I was young and the smell is not for nice clothes, and dosen't wash away easily, I know people in a hurry think they can get in and out faster, but I never have, and I don't like the idea of my 80+ year old mother having to get out in the winter and pump her own gas.
I think the gas companies can well afford to have an atttendant pump their product. and you have bought into a falsehood that pumping yourself saves you money..Ha Ha.. and time.
Now that you have let yourself become their product despencer, you cannot go back to our convience, we could always add a self serve island in the future, and you can still get out of your car and go into their stores.
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Personally, I don't like the idea of having to share the road with someone 80+ years old, summer or winter. But thats just me opinion.
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I have to agree, I will NOT ride with her.
She dosen't drive much these days, but she lives up by you, so she does pump her own.
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Awwww, MAN!
It is with great disappointment that I must formally remove myself from this fun VX Meet. I've been "drafted" to take photos on Saturday, and it is for an organization I've worked with before.
The group is called Global Family Alliance, and they operate an annual respite program for Belarussian children. These kids are from the area of Belarus that was affected by fallout from the Chernobyl disaster. Every year, a group of families host children for two months during the summer, providing nutricious food, free medical and dental care and a variety of other services. It's a wonderful charity, and I really cannot say "no" to them.
Check out the operation here...they're really getting some great results. I have met some of the same kids over the past two years, and they really blossom with some good old Westernized food and medicine!
http://globalfamilyalliance.org/
I hate to drop out of the Newberg meet, but these kids really will break your heart. They deserve all the support they can get!
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