Thank you sir, and the comment about the meshing of reading/writing styles goes right back at ya.

I enjoyed reading this journal and seeing another perspective of inland Washington and the Palouse. Your writing style meshes well with my reading style, which doesn't say much for your writing style. Haha! Just kidding. I was just telling Mrs G. that I easily become engrossed in your journals, and that should count for something.

Har!!

Absolutely hilarious (and cute.) Thank you.

Ok here goes:
https://youtu.be/qHwHgwlo4PI

Be sure to watch it a few times.

You won't regret it. That goes for both riding in central Washington AND writing like an uneducated dork.

Bring it on, Ron. I love a hilarious goat video as much as anybody, and I am no stranger to the F-word.

I experienced that same free range bovine attitude one time when I rode among them in Montana. I stopped to take a picture, and before I could even get my phone out, one of them started to charge at me. I raced away as fast as I could. I guess cows don't have much stamina, because the chase only lasted about ten yards. Anyway, maybe I need to do some touring in Europe. I've read all kinds of journals about bike tourers riding among herds of sheep, but nobody ever gets threatened by those animals.

Now that I see my old buddy Scott's salty comment, I don't feel so bad about the mangina comment.
Anyway, everyone knows it only rains in western Oregon. You must have been given bad directions. But the Wallows are spectacular, and well worth experiencing.

Ok, I've already sullied your journal (Ewan McGregor term), but I do have a hilarious goat video that I'd love to link here with your permission. It is innocent, hilarious charming, short and contains the F word. So let me know.

Cows are very interesting. Pasture cows like these in South Dakota were so skittish that they would run in terror when Jen and I rode by. And I've ridden near some free range cattle in Oregon that act more like wild bison. They had real attitudes.

It's beautiful. I love the sage/high desert.

Better to use duct tape than to be seen with, to coin a Ewan McGregor term, a mangina. (sorry to add R-rated material to your excellent journal)

I have decided to heretofore (whatever that means) write exclusively in the 2nd person using fractured grammar.

And I gotta get to that part of Washington and ride. It's only a few hours from me.

That's MY kind of scenery.