Day 28 Mile 340-345

Burns

Woke up real early when Joshua got up to play computer games. Cleaned up and showered and had a wonderful skillet breakfast that Denis fixed. Played Chess with Jerimiah and beat him the first game but I got beat the second time around. Enjoyed visiting with Denis and Alice before finally shoving off to explore burns at around noon. I stopped in at the Simple Food Co., a natural foods store and visited with Dan and Betty who have their own green house and do organics. Met with Kris at the Chamber of commerce. Her daughter wants to climb Everest and is off in Colorado having a blast. Kris directed me over to the Burns Times Herald where I had an interview with Lauren for an article that should come out on Wednesday. Went over to the Safeway to get stocked up for my next few days trek through the desert and mountains of Eastern Oregon. At Safeway I met Chelsea who is excited to be going to London in two weeks to meet for the first time a boyfriend she made over the internet on MySpace. She has been working and saving her money to go meet him and to travel Europe a bit. I was psyched to meet someone who had a dream and was following it. Go live your dream Chelsea! I went for Chinese food in town and really knew I was in small town America when the Chinese restaurant did not have hot and sour or egg flour soup but only had clam chowder:-) I was beat and decided not to push out towards Buchanon today and instead decided to retire early at the Silver Spurs Motel so that I could rest up and make a strong push the next several days.

By the way my official graduation day from USC was today!
I now officially have my MA in International Relations:-)
Its kind of funny that today was the day that I decided to rest and not walk, while the rest of my class was walking.