Day Twenty - Eugene!!

Twenty days! Wow. This is crazy. We've been on the road for twenty days?! It feels like forever. Twenty days seems like months ago.

And I love it. We all do.

We were talking today about how we never want this to end. I wish it didn't have to end. Sadly, it does. Very sadly. But not for another 13 or so days. That's good news!

So we wake up. Morning at the Motel 6. Yes, they did leave the light on for us, thank goodness. Well, we woke up, showered and packed everything up and drove to the Travel Lodge, only a block away! Why? Well, it was the same price PLUS they have internet access. Free. Yep.

We unloaded there and when drove into Eugene. Our first stop was Cosmic Pizza! Wow! Cosmic Pizza is AMAZING. Why? Well simple! They have vegan pizza! Vegan Pizza? Do I mean pizza without the cheese? Well, sort of, but the cheese was replaced by tofu! Sounds bad? Well, you've never tried it. I was iffy on it, but wow. good.  Nikki got a pepperoni pizza. WAIT! Nikki is veg, right?! Yep! They were veggie pepperonis! Yay!!!  Ashley got boring cheese pizza. But we love her anyway.

Before the pizza, we got VEGAN peanutbutter cups. OH MY! AMAZING! I'm just stoked. I want to eat them everyday.  I'm kidnapping Eugene.

After the pizza, we walked around Eugene. This is one of my favorite places ever. We hit some hippy shops and some CD stores. Mostly we just hung out. Walked around and enjoyed the town. Santa Rosa and Eugene are wonderful. I'm not sure which would win.

The last place we hit was Planet Goloka. It's this cute little cafe where we had smoothies and I bought TWO tshirts! YAY! This is one of my favorite places so far on the trip. I could have hung out there all day.

What struck us all as cool was that everyone in this town is just SO nice!!

After Planet Goloka, the girls hit a piercing place. Each were tempted by the serpent of the needle, but in the end, they just bought new ear rings. Nice ones too. You'll see in pictures, probably tomorrow.

Then it was back to the hotel. Sort of early, but we have laundry to do and it's nice to just relax.

Eugene is amazing. And it's only the size of Williamsport, but there are seven or so ALL vegetarian places. Why were we cursed with living on the east coast?!

BLAH!

What a GREAT day!


Stats
Miles traveled today: 23
Hours on the road: n/a
Miles traveled in total: 6264

Pictures
Pictures from Eric's Camera.
Pictures from Ashley's Camera (finally!).

Where are we?
Map showing where we are today!
(Purple = where we've been. Red = where we traveled today.)