What the *@#! is going on in Oregon?!? (Page 2 of 2)

I was born in Oregon, but I was raised in California. I've been to 3 different places in Oregon, and each is different.

Ashland isn't really a city, but a large town. It's got some awesome Shakesperian plays in season, so if you want a real treat, if you're there at the right time of year, check out a play called "the Baltimore Waltz" playing there. I saw it half a lifetime ago, and it remains the one show which had me on the ground, tears flowing from cheeks sore from grimacing, while doubled over with laughter. Everyone in California and Oregon knows that Ashland is more a part of northern California than a part of Oregon.

Eugene is strange. It's a college town, but without the fanfare. Very dreary and depressing, but maybe I was just there in the wrong season or something.

Portland is beautiful, but tragic. The vibe in the city is like a newlywed who was suddenly made into a widow. I went to a rave there once, and there was a teenage girl who went in, wrote some stuff on the wall, went outside, and committed suicide with a gun shot to the head. I didn't know it at the time, but I was somehow aware of it on some other level, because I felt a presence at the party that was different and for me, things were never the same.

Speed traps.   Be on the lookout for speedtraps.  I got pulled over and was given a ticket by a cop in Eugene because the highway goes from being 70 mph to suddenly dropping to 55, and believe me, the cops are parked on the side of the road just waiting for all the people who don't notice this.  What makes it a speed trap per se is that you don't have any warnings of a sudden speed drop - one second it's 70 and the next it's 55, no ample notice of this, there's the cops, just waiting.  In all fairness, I have to say the cop was the nicest cop you could ever have to deal with.   They're just so damn friendly up there.   He smiled and wished me luck in my new life in Portland as he ripped the ticket from the pad.  And he meant it.  He was sincerely wishing me luck.   !

But yeah, it's all about revenue generating.   Oregon is financially in the hole and desparate for money, and so they have made "inventing b.s. revenue generators" into an art form.

Another revenue generator is snow tires / tire chains.  In the winter, sections of the 5 will be shut down and the highway patrol make it illegal to not pass through the roadblocks without chains on your tires.  I know cause...........been there, done that.  I had low profile tires, and chains just don't fit for them.  Had to spend $400 on new tires and chains just to get back into Oregon.  Then when I was literally, waiting in line at the peak of the snowy mountain to pass through the road block, they lifted the chain ban.  waaaamp waaaaaaaaaamp waaaaaaaaaaaaamp waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamp.

Remember too, you can't pump your own gas. It's illegal.  So plan your time at gas stations wisely, because you'll have to sit in lines waiting for the one lone dude who's running around pumping everybody's gas.

There's more too, but can't think of any offhand.   Eugene is different from Portland, like night and day.  I passed by on the 5 but never saw an actual "city" to speak of.   Eugene looked to me like nothing but farmland and some stores.  There was nothing to it.   As I drove up the 5 north I kept waiting and waiting and waiting for cities to appear, but didn't find one until 250 miles into my journey, when I hit Salem, the capital.  "LOOK!!  THEY HAVE A BEST BUY!!!  WOW!!!  IT'S AN ACTUAL CITY!!!!"  But even that is nothing compared to Portland.  So Portland is really it, the one and only true city in a state the size of Germany.  (well, I guess Ashland is a city too.....although it's more like a very large town.)

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I would be curious to hear your updates about what life is like for you once you get to Oregon and start school.  What you see, what the people are like, how's the economy, what kind of bizarro rules and laws you hear about, strange weather stuff, just whatever weirdness in general you might encounter.  If you have the time of course.   Try to keep us updated!

Well then, how about a thread about the things you noticed in Utah?  Called "What the *@#! is going on in Utah?!?"    haha  j/k

Ah yes, the polygamy.  That's no surprise there, I expected that.  The Mormons try to play it down, but everybody knows it runs rampant in Utah. 

Actually, I'm more interested in hearing stories about the supposed tunnels and / or bases underneath Salt Lake City, as well as the genealogical database they have as well, which stores information on everybody - and I mean everybody, not just Mormons. 

There's also supposedly some major mind control signals being beamed at the population, of course.  Have read a couple of random personal accounts from people regarding this.

Anyway, that's the kind of stuff I'm talking about, versus low alcohol content in beverages, Mormons, religion and polygamy.  To me that's all standard fare to be expected in Utah.   But we know there's so much more happening.........you just have to start poking around, look up, or even down, if the tunnel stories are to be believed.

I just read the tunnel thing on another forum in this...I never heard about it before but I supose I should go check it out.

Don't know anything about Mind control signals, how would I read them?? As for the genealogical database, i've seen it...uh deals mostly with Baptisums for the Dead...i don't think the info they have is that detailed?

Here in Indiana we don't need a script, but there will be an age limit (otherwise you'll need a note) and you will need to show proof of ID when buying OTC cough syrup and allergy medicine (I think).

But hey at least you can still ride your motorcycle without a helmet here.