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we settled, to varying degrees, in portland. i sold my bike to a lady who’s going to use it to haul her kid around. adam started picking up job applications. katie went church shopping. we went to concerts and ate pizza and rode around the city, and felt finished. it took three days for us to gather ourselves for the final push to the coast, and by that time i had nothing to push on; i hitchhiked west while katie and adam pedaled drastically lightened bikes. we met in cannon beach, OR, dumped the ceremonial bottle of atlantic water in the pacific, and all of a sudden we had different agendas. i turned south to san francisco, adam is staying in portland, and katie is going back to work in indiana, which is in fact a different state from illinois. for one, it’s almost impossible to pronounce indiana in a french accent, nor is it possible to go to any city named chicago in indiana.

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