Ruthie On The Road, Update

I have been on-and-off bus lines since I left Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Today, I am typing this out in an alcove at the Holiday Inn in the small-town city of Craig, Colorado. Hopefully, the bus will come through and pick me up today.

It was cancelled yesterday.

I am headed for Salt Lake City, Utah...Boise, Idaho...Ontario, Oregon and finally back to Portland.

There I will continue my quest to fix this blog and follow the progress of the Resource Center with a very sharp eye.

Heh-heh-heh.

I consider myself very fortunate to have met the wonderful people that I did in and around Craig yesterday. How everything was choreographed is amazing!

And I really enjoyed myself in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. That's a community that I want to go back and visit again someday.

Privt. Msg.:If you look around and you see only dust motes twirling through the air...blame yourself.

Ruthie On The Road, Update

I am in a small town city in northern Oklahoma. I have moved into an apartment here. But I was promised a computer of my own with an Internet connection...or one that I could connect to the Internet.

Now it looks like I will never receive it.

I am devastated.

However, I am bound and determined to update this blog and write the story that has been waiting to be shared for so long.

Believe it. Even if I don't do it here.

Ruthie On The Road, Update

Me On The Bus, Ocotber 2009
Cell Phone Photo By Ruth Rader

Hello Campers!!

I am now in little, rural Mayberry, Missouri AKA guess where?

Heh-heh-heh.

And I know that I have a great deal of updating to do here. And I will!

This is because I am now within walking distance of where I can do it and the room that I am in is paid through the next three days.

I am not sure what I am going to do after that because I have to check a few more options.

But I am eating and drinking (huh?) and resting well.

S-T-R-E-T-C-H!!! Oh baby, I love Mayberry!

Ruthie On The Road, Update

Three hours after I posted the last entry in this blog, I felt a big, black blanket cover me.

And I got sick.

Swine Flu is rampant in Oklahoma right now and I just happen to have the dubious fortune to be in Enid.

I figure that I have IT or some facsimile, thereof.

And my cell phone is in roaming mode all over this City...so I can't send my photos to Flickr or here, either.

Some things are just going to have to wait.

Thinking about anything for the first few days of the illness was nearly impossible.

I went from a cot at the Salvation Army to a bed at Habib's Crappy Rooms and Curried Chicken. Two days later I bailed and came over here.

Words.

How do I describe the euphoria of climbing to the top of that long, high hill in Washington State?

How do I tell you about the beauty of that scarlet-gold sunset reflecting in my hair as I twirled around on the edge of that road?

FREEDOM!

Oh, the suffocating heat and humidity on that stretch of interstate between Missouri and Tennessee!

But you never heard me say to the Lord, over and over:" Just one more step...help me take one more step."

And in the end, the only person who stopped was a guy in a garbage truck. God bless him!

It's hard to understand the mind-set of the cops in Colorado Springs who set me loose (no, I wasn't arrested but they gave me a ride out of that City) into a cold, rainy night near Fountain.

It is unfortunate that I can't post the photos yet but I will write-out the basics of the stories and then I'll post them here.

In light of this wretched flu, thank you for your patience.

Ruthie On The Road, Update

Hello everyone...this is the first post in what is going to be a huge update which will go into full swing this Friday. I have not forgotten, for one single day, this blog that I have maintained faithfully for over four years. Oh no!

But I have been on the road, and using the new mode of communication known as Twitter via my cell phone. So the blog has gone silent for far too long.

I am going to do something about that.

I have a batch of new photos and new stories to tell you all about. I'm looking forward to sharing it all with you soon.

As you may know, if you have been following me on Twitter, I left Dyersburg, Tennessee and returned to Portland, Oregon. But I only remained there for four days before I got back on the road again.

Today, I am in Enid, Oklahoma and will be here until Thursday. Big bodacious storms are coming...or so everybody is saying. My final destination is Brookfield, Missouri.

What a summer it has been!

Meanwhile, Back In Portland...

Click on the post headline above and read about the latest activity in the City that I left behind at the beginning of this trip: Portland, Oregon.

Thank you to my friend who works for Multnomah County (where Portland is located) for sharing this with me.

And PLEASE read my latest update post below this one!