Journey
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, July 27, 2016
C5
EO Media Group/E.J. Harris
Mile 266.3 - A bee collects pollen from a wild daisy
south of Fox on Highway 395.
Mile 249.8 - A canyon north of Mt. Vernon.
Bringing Savings Home
Mon-Sat 9 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Sun 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Mile 267.8 - An old barn south of Fox on Highway 395.
TRIP
Continued from Page C4
Visions of impending
doom haunted my nightly
slumber. And in my waking
hours the voices in my head
were telling me that I will
find a way to screw this up.
My subconscious doesn’t al-
ways seem like it is an active
partner in my artistic jour-
ney.
But, through all of the
stress I seemed to have
heaped upon myself, I
pushed through. Making
preparations for the trip.
Learning how to use a Go-
Pro. Scouring over the route
in Google Maps Street View
to see what I might find on
my journey. Making calcula-
tions about drive time, total
hours of daylight, how long
I could stop based on how
many total stops I made…
math, basically. I did math.
A challenge to all art majors.
And then the day came,
June 20, 2016. I woke up be-
fore dawn (a fact that might
startle my co-workers, who
have had to deal with my
protests about waking up for
early-morning assignments),
and headed down the high-
way. But I never made it to
Umatilla. The sun set as I
was driving about 15 miles
from Pilot Rock.
Mile 279.5 - An old farm south of Long Creek on
Highway 395.
So, did I fail my chal-
lenge? I guess that depends
on how you look at it. In
a black and white world I
did fail to meet the goals
I had set out for myself. I
did, however, drive for 370
miles, through some really
beautiful country. I stopped
over 60 times (that is an
average of one stop every
six miles) taking more than
Like us on
and look for special items.
1,000 photos. I petted two
dogs and got paid for all
of it. The most important
thing about my challenge
is that I learned something
about myself driving down
that lonely highway: that
success isn’t always mea-
sured by crossing the finish
line, and true failure is nev-
er challenging yourself at
all.
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