Matt and Dad went for the ride today, leaving me to my own devices in an unknown land. Scary thought for them, I’m sure.
Decided to use my time wisely, doing some shopping for the group, and perfectly timing showing up for them and the break, receiving the phone call just as I was in sight of Matt, although more than a mile behind Dad, If I was the hare, and Dad was the tortoise, but the tortoise smoked Matt, what kind of creature does that make him? I’m tempted to go with a snail, but that seems a bit too easy. Suggestions are welcome.
After lunch at a little roadside burger joint, Matt and I took off to try to set up a camp sight for the night. We decided the campsight called Paradise had an appropriate name, and went with it. Upon driving in, we were stunned. Every road, as well as each camp site, is covered by a canopy of trees. Absolutely stunning, Paradise is a fitting name. We picked a spot next to a flowing river (On a side note, flowing rivers are nice to fall asleep to, but torture when you try to rollover in the morning trying to ignore your bladder. Ain’t gonna happen buddy). Set up camp, grabbed Dad, tried to grab dinner, and all we could find at the country store were dogs and sausage (Where do the people out here go to get there meat, do they drive and hour, do they hunt it down, or do they hide their butcheries from people passing though?). After a nice meal of spicy beer sausage and a local IPA, which wasn’t very good, we had to put the food and all away for the animals to not get at. Apparently, before too long we will be in bear country, according to father, and may have to suspend our food 20 feet up in a tree. Really looking forward to having to worry about being mauled in my sleep over a hotdog…
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There are a lot of animals that never move. Corals, sponges, and barnacles are examples, clocking in at 0 miles per hour.
The sloth is an arboreal (tree living) animal that moves very slowly. It lives in an area where eagles are the major predator. Eagles, like most predators, have very keen eyesight and are particularly able to detect movement. When the sloth moves through the trees very slowly, it is hard to detect its presence. Thus, the sloth's slow speed is really an advantage against its major predator.
There are a lot of eagles in Oregon.
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