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Organic Oregon Hippies

29/9/2019

 
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Stage 1


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Astoria, Oregon – Cottage Grove, Oregon



266.64 Miles – 429.11 Kilometres

It turned out that we were staying at a hippy commune. We were given a room with a soft bed and an ensuite. I was struggling though, struggling with the seemingly obvious fact that so far all Americans seem to be vegan. For tea, I had the choice of eating tofu or polenta. I knew tofu, it is what the dogs leave on the lawn after their night's wandering. Polenta was an unknown, I presumed it didn't have meat in it, but I gave it a shot. It was the same colour and flavour as everything else I had eaten over the last week; brown and cardboardish. I had dried sausage in my pannier, but was too scared to munch on it, just in case the meat police jumped on me and kicked us out of our lovely room.
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​Cheers Kel

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