It had stopped by the time we drove over the Willamette, on our way to IFBWax's house, a fellow ACVWer, who'd offered us a place to stay for the night. 
The next morning before we left for the zoo, Esmé's discerning eye detected an out-of-spec screw on Ludwig's AC power plug in.
Pointing out the loose screw
For good measure, she helped me tighten all of them up. Thanks, Tater Tot.
That green bus ahead of Ludwig is The Party Pickle, who the IFBWax family (blog here) clearly love and enjoy. (This is a link to Charlie Brown, their other bus I which couldn't manage to photograph well. This bus probably ranks in my top 10 all time favorite VWs I've seen in person. Hey, it is brown after all...) They let us spend the night in their guest room, where after E fell asleep we enjoyed a rare treat: cable television. Thanks for the hospitality, Party Pickle family. Incidentally, their driveway marks Ludwig's new Westernmost (known) point.
We went to Portland after the VW Jamboroo mostly because we wanted E to see the zoo (Montana doesn't have one). It was pretty decent, but then Melissa and I are spoiled by having visited the Henry-Doorly Zoo so many times, one of this country's best zoos. Ludwig waited patiently in the parking lot.
After the zoo we headed downtown to meet up with a bunch of ACVWers who regularly meet up at The Lucky Labrador on Quimby each Monday. This was just a cool bridge on the way to downtown.
A good-sized crew eventually assembled, mostly people we'd spent the weekend with. Now that he's been there, Ludwig can wear the Lucky Lab sticker Gypsie gave him last year without embarrassment.
After some pizza, we decided it was time to eat up some of the distance between Portland and Missoula, so we headed out of town.
(miles 220,991-221,116)
1 comment:
Your trips always sound like such fun! Once again, Esmé is too cute for words! I'm loving that she's looking after Ludwig. Now if you could just teach her to change a flat...
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