Next to the Baker City Cathedral, where I spent 8 years.
This was my last car I had in the
USA between Baker City and Bend in Oregon. It was very hard to part from it when
I returned to Malta, as it was in pretty good shape and had great memories of
some of my long trips which I started to do every year in early September. This
way I was able to discover more of the northwest of the USA, from British
Columbia to Northern California, from the Pacific Coast to Wyoming and Montana.
I used to cover between 1,500 miles to over 2,000 within a 5-day trip, stopping
a thousand times for photos. That was the real reason for my trips, to discover
new territory and come back with lots of photos. I remember various trips,
including one along the Oregon coast, one towards the Canadian Rockies, a range
of mountains I could not see because it turned out to be a cloudy few days. I
also headed east through the heart of Idaho, towards Yellowstone Park into Glacier
National Park, reaching Missoula, and coming back through the scenic, desolate
and meandering Lochsa River. I had only one disappointment through all my
travels. I was given an unfair ticket in Pacific City on the Oregon coast. The officer told me I had not slowed down at
the zebra-crossing as a pedestrian wanted to cross. Well, I remember well that
the person was a tourist just looking around and I did slow down as I was used
to these crossings in my parish. I appealed the infraction and was given an
online course on safety driving instead, and my license remained untarnished
and unblemished. But all in all, the Equinox was an excellent car which I truly
enjoyed. This was the only car that had a CD player instead of a cassette
player, and so I always filled my car with plenty of CDs, especially on my long
trips. The best music in the world was heard in that burgundy car, the same
color as the Geo Metro. My last car tomorrow....
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