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Partner or Meetup for West Coast Roadtrip (flexible activities/dates) · Tue. Jun. 26th, 2018 - Sat. Jun. 30th, 2018
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Start: Tuesday, Jun. 26th
End: Saturday, Jun. 30th
Description:
TLDR Looking for a roadtrip partner flexible on nature and length of roadtrip. Have probably but flexible commitments in Washington and Grant's Pass Oregon.
I am planning to drive down the westcoast to spend some time shadowing in 1-2 different surgical practice in small communities (I'm a med student). Would love to drive down with someone and we could combine some hiking or other adventures.
Person would have to be okay with doing there own thing/adventures some of the time as I will spend 1-3 days in each place shadowing and would only be available in between or evenings.
A possible itinerary could something along the lines of
Leave Vancouver Monday the 25th of June.
Drive to either somewhere near Spokan or Monteseno.
Then either spend a day or two hiking/climbing or something
Then stop in one of these towns, camp out and I would shadow while you do other things (I could drop you at a trailhead if you like and you could do a traverse for example and then after a couple days I could pick you up on the other end)
Then we continue down the coast to Oregon where we do something similar.
Maybe spend a day or two climbing in Smith rock
Or hike some of the mountains in Oregon, Shasta, Mt. Hood etc
Then I need to spend a couple days in Grant's Pass shadowing, maybe you want a rest day or you can tour around, whatever you like....
Then we can continue the adventure or drive back to Vancouver?
Ideally we can split some of the driving.
I have a relatively old but reliable 4runner that is automatic that we can use.
We can split some of the gas money (I feel like a pay what you think is fair policy is appropriate here as I feel that I value your company more than your gas money and I know that most of use are very poor grad students. So we can discuss what is a fair contribution. Maybe somehwere in the 20% of gas money to 50%+maintenance range depending on your means)
This could also work well if you are the digital nomad type. I'm big into podcasts and if you want to get some work done on a laptop in the back seat (maybe some coding, thesis writing) while we alternate turns driving we could probably figure something out. I have a pretty generous US cell data plan that I could upgrade and we could be connected to internet in most places.
I am also learning Spanish so if you want to practice/learn that would be great!
Cheers