As can be seen from the title of this blog I have become extremely lazy. Ever since I have hit Eugene I have decided fuck going on an epic adventure, fuck being in the cold ass rain, and fuck being so dirty and hungry that eating a peanut butter covered apple, and jumping in the freezing river is such an improvement from the status quo that sometimes I will fiend for those things. The problem is, I'm not done. I still have half of Oregon, and all of Washington to ride before I can even consider myself to be somewhat accomplished. There are still so many more people to meet, so much more territory to see (this is only a very small portion of the world) that giving up is not an option. It would go against everything that I have began to cherish in myself. With quite a bit more riding to do, and tons more adventures to be had, there is no way that I could throw this away, but It took me a while to get a hold of this mental attitude. Upon first getting into Eugene I was pretty ravished from long days of biking and really having no comfort since I was in Arcata. Arcata to Eugene was so difficult because I stretched myself out so thin. I went days and days without any real rest, without a real sense of safety so getting to Eugene was such a great treat. As soon as I got here though I became so lazy and uninspired it was almost unbearable. It took me from Wednesday to Sunday to write the first blog that I posted here. On Thursday I cleaned the most disgusting kitchen I have ever seen, but those are about the only productive thing that I have done in a week... It has been a great time. Being in Eugene and hanging out with my friends has been so amazing that I really haven't had this much fun (I mean real fun doing things that are not fun afterwards but are fun right then.) since I was in Santa Barbara. This has been a much needed week of recuperation. Although I could have taken better advantage of it by sleeping, and planning my next step; I feel like the excessive partying and eating of ice cream and cookies has been one of the best vacations I could have taken away from my vacation. To do this and not feel like a total mooch I had to give something back. I did that by cleaning the kitchen of the house that I stayed in on 23rd and Onyx, it was seriously filthy. In cleaning the kitchen I dumped out at least 4 pots of standing water with a mold layer on them. Cleaned out a sink filled with fungus covered dishes and washed almost every dish that they had in a six person house. When cleaning the sink I would get wafts of a fungi like microbe decomposing the Kraft macaroni and cheese grit in a month old dirty dish. On top of this there were old party remnants everywhere which had to be cleaned. It was a pretty big job, but I'm really glad that I did it. While living in that house I have mooched off everyone so hard I probably should, in all honesty have to do something like that again. Everyone that lives there has been incredibly good to me, and I hope that they come back to Boise this summer so that i can repay them a little bit more. In this week I have lost all of my physical and mental endurance, letting myself slip so hard that I probably won't be able to make it the 40 miles to Corvallis tomorrow. Even if I couldn't do this (Which is an absurd thought I can't believe I typed it in the first place.) it would have been worth it, going back and hanging out at a college has been a great time. If I didn't appreciate it with all of the value that it really has I have obviously have learned nothing on my trip. Thank you to everyone at Eugene that has made my stay about as perfect as it could have possibly been. I am sad to leave but I know the time has come, with a inspired second half to come I am ready once again to step back into the world.
Tim
P.s. I want to give a special thanks to Alex Unger for letting me stay in his room with him, giving me a lot of cookies and such and teaching me about doing you.
p.s.s. I have way too many shout outs to give on this blog so thank you guys all a lot. Especially Coop, Stroob, Kerry, Joe, and Nick. It has been awesome thank you guys
p.s.s.s. Good job keeping the kitchen clean
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