The Adventure Continues ... Amazingly

Yes, after last night, I still had an adventure!

It was decided that I was to get to the station via Kirby's roommate's moped. Both of us were to ride helmet-less with all of my luggage (a suitcase [think early twentieth century leather handheld suitcase] and my very full satchel). Eh, we survived an exploding kitchen, how much crazier could this be?

We get on, I am holding my suitcase out over the left hand side; my satchel is weighing down on the right. As we start going, it is obvious that the moped is struggling. On any good day with one passenger, a moped is sort of speedy. Well, it had two passengers and luggage. We were inching along at probably under 10km/h. Maybe just a little faster... downhill. The entire time, Laura and I are laughing hysterically. If there were bicyclists, they would gave passed us easily. The drivers were looking at us like we were insane, and we probably are.

Most of the time we stuck to the sidewalks (I mean, heck, we were going slower than bicyclists), but we needed to take a left hand turn, meaning we would have to go into the left turn lane. Neither of us know the area particularly well and start to take a left on a street before the one we need. So, there we are: two university students, with loads of luggage, on a crawling moped swerving from the right hand side, to the centre of the street, back to the right lane. It was a red light so we stopped and found that we needed to take a left at the next intersection. So, the light turned green, and we started off, watching the car ahead of us accelerate leaving the hill in the intersection visible. The moped was barely moving on level ground... We try half accelerating, half pushing with our feet, all the time laughing, trying to get out of the way for the rest of the cars.

We finally took that left, but in front of us was a large hill (think small hill in San Francisco). We just gave up at that point and ran it to the top. Hopping back on, we took a detour through a parking lot, all the while saying how this is "all kinds of illegal".

In the end, I got to the station about 15 minutes early with yet another story to bring home with me. Thank you everyone and thank you Gonzaga University, this was the most perfect first Thanksgiving away from home.

Laura and her moped!