Ruthie On The Road, Update--Part Two

                               -SNOW PACK ON THE MOUNTAINS IN COLORADO,
                               IN THE MIDDLE OF MAY,
                               ALL PHOTOS/EDITS BY RUTH RADER-

   
 I left the oil field and traveled to the pass, the BIG JUMP over the hill...and I was astounded by the amount of snow that was still piled-up everywhere!

 I tried to spend a night in another yurt but the snow, snow melt and threat of avalanches made that option impossible.

Now I am in Greeley, Colorado and ready to make my way into Kansas. That's where the Wizard is waiting for me.

I'm off to see the Wizard.

Ruthie On The Road, Update--Part One

                                -HALF ASLEEP, SITTING ON MY BACKPACK,
                               IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT,
                               OUTSIDE NEWPORT, OREGON-

I reactivated my phone and so now I can post some new photos!


-ALL PHOTOS AND EDITS BY RUTH RADER-

Whether it's a pine tree giving the finger or a cop digging in on a Harley...photos are so much fun to take!

                                -MOTORCYCLE MEDIC, SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT,
                                                              NEAR OGDEN, UTAH-
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My new road trip began near the ocean in Oregon. I boarded several buses between Bandon
and Coos Bay, Oregon.

                                -WAITING FOR A BUS AT COOS BAY, OREGON-

I finally moved far enough inland to the small city of Sweet Home, Oregon. I stepped off the last of the series of buses there and went looking for assistance. I quickly found it.

One minute I was walking down a sidewalk and the next minute I was eating lunch with a member of a church, in the Sweet Home community. He not only bought me a meal but he also bought me a room in a nice mom-and-pop motel, too. I stayed there overnight and the next morning, he drove me out to a good spot where I could begin to hitchhike from.

He prayed with me and then slipped me an envelope with $100 in cash in it. And then he drove away.

I was concerned about how I was going to get through Idaho, since that State is so hell-bent on giving hitchhikers a hassle. But the man assured me that God had heard his prayer and that I would probably get a ride right straight through Idaho.

I did.

But I got a ride to Cascade, Oregon first. I was propositioned by a local pervert and after I got rid of him, a man from a Nationwide tire company gave me a ride. He ended up driving me over 670 miles from where he picked me up at, to the pretty little town of Tremonton, in northern Utah.

                                -A BEAUTIFUL SUNSET OVER OREGON'S HIGH
                                DESERT-

The man drove all night. By the time that  we  reached Tremonton, Utah it was morning again and I was totally exhausted. So I said goodbye to my  driver, checked into a motel and fell asleep.

The next day, I got a series of rides that eventually got me to "the other side of the mountain." I traveled to Interstate 84 and a ski area known as Heber City, Utah.         

Heber City eventually led to a man who works in a huge oil fracking patch in Utah.

                               

After work, he bought me a room (where I stayed by myself) at a Best Western hotel in Vernal, Utah.

The  next day, I took a short ride on a Greyhound bus to the small, spit-in-the-sand town of Dinosaur.

I finally made it to the crazy State of Colorado.

Ruthie On The Road, Update

The Road Adventure Is Continuing...

...and it's better than a carnival ride.

I have some photos that you might find interesting and I'm going to post them, soon.

The photos include a Utah cop on his Police Harley (he posed for the picture) and a very interesting project in a Utah oil patch.

The past few days have included a nasty bout of diarrhea (I won't ever eat at Carl's Jr., again!), meeting some sweet people in Heber City, Utah (The Ghirardelli Chocolate Girls) and a family who lives in an A-Frame log house.

And then there's my Fracking Friend....but let's wait on that until I post the photos.

Ruthie In The Sky, Update

I am now in Tremonton, Utah. Which is significant because I woke up in Sweet Home,
Oregon yesterday. Sweet Home is 676 miles from Tremonton, Utah.

I got a ride to the edge of Sweet Home, yesterday morning. Then the driver said a prayer
for me and slipped $100 into my hand before we said goodbye.

Then I got a ride to Cascade, Oregon where I sat on a guardrail, under the tall pines and waited.
After about two hours, a pervert in a big white pickup, stopped and propositioned me.

"You want to fool around a little?" he asked me.

I leveled him a look that made him sit back in his seat and then I said, "You are the little fool
that I don't want to be around."

Before he drove away, I made sure that he knew that I put a curse on him.

Fifteen minutes later, a guy who works for a nationwide tire chain, stopped and properly
offered me a ride. He drove all afternoon and last night and dropped me off here in Tremonton
earlier today.

Now I am in a motel. I will return to the road when I feel more human, tomorrow morning.

Art At The Inn

-PHOTOS AND EDITS BY RUTH RADER-

Art is everywhere. And it is definitely at the Sands Inn Park Terrace motel in Fort Morgan,
Colorado.

I stayed there earlier this year. And I took some photos that I think reflect the beauty of the
"little motel that can."