Smoke thick enough to be above harazrdous to health. I woke up this AM knowing that as the earth turns the sun will light up the sky. Sunrise time came, this is what outside looked from camp spot out at Phils.
Heavy smoke, air quality alert off the upper end, breathing will be bad for your health.
Follow up chiro adjustment this AM, body cooperated holding previous adjustment. Intense headache is gone as result og=f his manipulation. Suggested several more. Crazy, assistant at the front desk was astonished when she read my last name as her significant is also a Bierly that she pronounces as beerly, not our buyearly for christmas. No family connections.
Air quality in Bend was too hazardous to exert in. I checked an air quality site for air quality around the state. East is where smoke lessened, Burns was just yellow. I can be where ever I want to be. I chose to drive east seeking cleaner air. I never drove out of the smoke as I headed east on US 20. I stopped at Brothers, OR rest stop for lunch then spent fustrating minutes on both my phone and laptop trying to figure out maps for BLM land east of Burns. Just sucks finding mapping info. I found a camp on google maps that was not on other maps. Turned per phone direction onto an unnamed dirt road. Kept driving, passed mapped camp spot which was occupied, much broken glass on that ground. Continued found spot behind a shade tree that required all of my leveling blocks to obtain level. Smoke here still. And flies, lots of them in the van. I walked further along the road where I found a more desirable spot. I actually for the first time ever moved from a set up spot to another spot.
I am now about 70 miles east of Bend out of the real nasty smoke there. Forecast is for more of the same, 20% chance of showers on Tues. Suspect these big fires will keep burning more fuel creating ever more smoke. Traffic was burning headlamps in town as well as highway here. I might have cast off from Bend back on the road as I search for riding in clear air, Sun Valley’s ( Wood River Valley) Ketchum air is yellow. No riding from here to Boise. Will research Boise. Pot dispensary last stop is Ontario right on the OR/ID border. Will purchase anticipated quantity to last till next legal state.
Decisions I have made throughout my life have gotten me to where I am now. I am not fortunate to be where I am, it has worked this way. I am experiencing all things that people go through but I am doing it my way. I had no job to lose when the economy tanked: I am retired with an income. I did not lose my house to either the covid loss of income or to fire. My van still gets 25 mpg with 256,xxx miles on it. What people go through who were affected by the above is difficult to imagine how I would recover should it have happened to me. The smoke here in almost the center of the state is nasty but nowhere near as bad as other places such as Bend where people had(?) to stay. My difference is I was able to move my home away from the shit. If I were living at my house I would be stuck inside. Issues are personal, mine are important to me. I am just saying, some might say Whining.
Closed the side door and rolled up the windows trapping smokey outside air. Chilly enough.
SIBO diet allows Scotch but not dark rum. I shopped liquor store and bought a fifth of Scotch, $40 bottle. Store has some very expensive Scotch. I wet my whistle on a good pour.
SIBO diet identified many food items I have. I have gradually purging those items. I will research menu items and recipes to support the diet. I gave food stuffs that were unopened to bike shop.
