08-19-09

My next door neighbors moved out finally. The good news heavily outweighed the bad news. There were five people living in a little travel trailer, four adults and a new born. They had a car that was so stuffed with belongings that even the driver’s seat was packed to the windshield. They had to move their stuff to drive the car. They were always coming and going, hacking and coughing and flicking cigarette butts everywhere. The only bad news about them being gone was that I’d never figure out what the mysterious pumping sound was that they made periodically late at night.
We have to clean the trailer before an old lady moves in. We have a couple of weeks, so there’s no hurry, but I wanted to at least get rid of all of the trash. I threw out junk and picked all of the man-made material and cigarette butts, hundreds of them, out of the yard. It made the whole park feel better, especially my living space. It was now clean on both sides of the bus. The neighborhood felt brighter and less cluttered, physically and had a more peaceful aura.
The weather has been pleasant on the coast. It was 110 degrees just over the mountains inland in Eugene, but only in the 60s by the ocean.
Sea food is much better here and cheaper too. I’ve been taking advantage of it both in restaurants and at home. Yesterday it stunk like fish in the bus. Today it smells good, more seafood restaurant, less stinky fish. Maybe that’s why seafood restaurants smell that way, it’s yesterday’s fishy smell. Maybe I’m just acclimating to the stink. Either way, I like it. “Welcome to Johnny’s Fish Bus”.