Hong Kong. November 18 – 25, 2019.

The main purpose of this trip is to attend the 50^th high school reunion.  When I was growing up the Hong Kong education system followed that of the British: Ordinary Level was for those who completed Form 5 (Grade 11), and for me that was 1969.

Over the years I have kept in touch with perhaps a handful of my old classmates.  Two of them also went to Cornell (we all started in Engineering), and recently I have attended some functions with other classmates from that time.  Out of a class of about 160, about 40 would be attending this reunion.

In the last several months Hong Kong has been in the grip of ever-escalating violent protests.  For my last trip in early October, I remarked that for a visitor trouble spots were easy to avoid.  Things seem to have gotten worse, with universities being new battlegrounds.  I did entertain cancelling the trip (and my classmate Howard did), but at the end decided to go.

Monday 11/18.  United offers its 1K members free enrollment in CLEAR, which I accepted.  Most of the application was done on the web about a week ago, but I still had to get my documents and my biometrics scanned at Newark, a new site for CLEAR.  I got to the terminal at about 1 pm, and after checking in luggage (carrying some wine for Tim) went to the enrollment center, which consisted of an agent and two terminals.  There were a couple of people before me, so I had to wait about 10 minutes.  The terminal had trouble scanning my fingerprints, but the process was still rather straightforward.  I had pre-check today, and the line was short, so I could have saved some time walking straight to security.  Let’s hope it proves its worth on subsequent trips.  As it was, that gave me only a few minutes to get some water at the United Lounge, and I grabbed a couple of cookies also.

UA 179 (about halfway into flight as I type this) left on time, and had a light load.  The 777-300ER economy has a 3-4-3 configuration and was brutal the one time I was in it.  Today I have the entire row, so really no complaints.  The seats across the aisle are occupied by a young couple and their young child, who has been crying loudly quite a bit, so every now and then one of the parents would sit in my row; I am okay with that.  UA 179 leaves at 2:20 pm during the winter, so lunch was served quite early.  I didn’t have lunch, so even with eating the cookies early into the flight, I still appreciated the early meal service.

Simple lunch on UA179 was much appreciated.  I was hungry.

I decided to purchase WiFi service.  It was working okay until we reached Greenland, service was sporadic since then (only occasional short periods of connectivity).  Now we are over Russia, service seems to have come back.

Tuesday 11/19.  Tim had a broadcast session until 9 pm, and my flight arrived early at around 6:30 pm, so I stayed in the airport to have dinner before heading to Causeway Bay.  I enquired about the Airport Express ticket I couldn’t use last time because the trains were not running.  I was told the ticket would remain valid for a while.

Taxis were plentiful at the HK station, and traffic was very light.

Accommodations: CWB Apartment (6 nights).

Wednesday 11/20.  The next few days would be simply meals/coffee with various people.  For today: Breakfast with Alfred at Canteen Admiralty Center; Lunch with Kenneth at BoA Building Japanese Fast Food; Dinner at SCAC new roast goose restaurant with Whitney and Tim.

Half a roast goose at the Kamcentre Restaurant at South China Athletic Association.  The three of us managed to finish this - and a couple of other dishes - off.

Thursday 11/21.  Lunch with Joe T at The Cottage Gastropub in Sheung Wan; Dinner with Tim in CWB apartment.  Afterwards I wandered the streets of CWB for a little over an hour as Tim did his broadcast from the apartment.

Friday 11/22.  Lunch with Larry at HK Club.  Dinner was a reunion event, held at India Recreation Club, a 5-minute walk from the apartment.  Nonetheless Tim wanted to give me a ride in his (relatively) new car.  Quite a few people showed up at this event, I remembered many of the names but not the specifics.

The India Recreation Club is a short walk from where I am staying.  Never knew it was there until this trip.

Saturday 11/23.  Today’s reunion event was held at the school.  A student led us on a one-hour tour before we had lunch in the new canteen.  This supposedly school lunch was much better than what we used to have as a student.  I was at the school about five years ago, so things hadn’t changed that much.  The notable additions since we graduated were two new buildings, one for the performing arts with a large auditorium, and one for the IB program.  A classmate drove us to the HK side, tunnel traffic was slow because the Hunghom Tunnel was still under repair.

Mongkok was a battleground the last few weeks, and several traffic lights along Argyle Street were not working, which made driving difficult at intersections, and crossing the street downright dangerous.  Hong Kong people are known to honk readily if traffic is slow, but there was surprising restraint today.

 Because of security concerns, the only way onto school grounds was via the driveway.

 The student guide was leading a tour of the school grounds.  A couple of new buildings have gone up since I left: Performance Arts Building and the IB Building.

 Assemblies were held in the auditorium which seats over 1000.

 Our school is also celebrating its 150 anniversary.

 The bell that marked the beginning of class every day is still around today.

 I was a scout for several years, and spent many Saturday mornings doing what these young people do: setting up tents and building various structures.

 Photo with current Scoutmaster Kevin.  I was an instructor in the troop.

 One of a kind Lego set to celebrate the school's anniversary.

 We had a "nostalgic" lunch at school.  Lunch wasn't anything like this when we were students.

One of four tables.

Attended the 5 pm Kong Fok Church English Service where Joe T’s brother James works.  His sermon was on the Holy Spirit.  Had a simple dinner with them and another two couples at a nearby noodle restaurant.  After I got back to Causeway Bay I also got a snack in Hysan Place.  Admiralty was pretty quiet when I left, but CWB was bustling with pedestrians.  Either the “calm” (if you call lots of people calm) before the storm, or people just wanted to get out after being kept indoors for a while.  Tomorrow is District Council election, and no one seems to know for sure how things would turn out.

Selfie with Joe T of Hope HK after the Kong Fok service.

Sunday 11/24.  Today was election day when district voters elect 452 councilors.  Tim came by to pick me up to go to Pinecrest, and we walked down from there to the Seaview Promenade and took the “walla walla” to the ABC Middle Island location.  I went this way quite often when I lived in Hong Kong in the early 1990s.  The clubhouse was entirely rebuilt after the destruction by Typhoon Mangkhut last year.  We had lunch there and then went to Lamma Island where we walked from Sok Kwu Wan to Yung Shue Wan, a distance of about 5 km (4.7 per Google Maps).  There we met up with some friends of Tim’s and reboarded the boat to Deep Water Bay where Tim played with the DJI Spark drone.  While the controls were quite straightforward, the wind conditions made for some tense moments.

 Many sailboats on the horizon.

A solar powered boat moored at Deep Water Bay.

We then walked back up to Pinecrest and I was dropped off at the CWB apartment.

Tonight’s reunion dinner was at Dynasty Club in Wanchai.  A couple of teachers from our “era” were invited, as was the headmaster.  Neither teacher taught a class I attended.  I did catch up with a few more classmates whom I hadn’t seen for a while.  The streets were quiet.  Voting ended at 10 pm, so no one knew what the results were to be.  Of course there were accusations of voter interference from both sides.

 Someone brought along an old copy of STEPS magazine.  My class.

Group photo at the Dynasty Club.

Monday 11/25.  I woke up a bit earlier than usual, and from all I could tell things were quiet.  There were already hints that the pro-democracy folks were winning big.  (They ended up with about 80% of the seats in this winners-take-all system; the popular vote was around 60%.)  I Uber’ed and then took the Airport Express, getting to the airport at around 9 am.  Both Plaza Premium Lounges had long lines waiting to get in, so I used the United Club facilities instead.

I had an empty seat next to me, but still didn’t manage much sleep.  The plane landed an hour early, and I got home before Anne.

Oregon. October 14 – 22, 2019.

We had booked a trip to Florida to visit Ms Ruth while she was in hospice care.  She passed away before we could make the trip, so we exchanged those tickets for this trip to Oregon, paying a penalty of $200 each.

We had visited the area a couple of times before, as far back as 2004, and vaguely recall this haystack/needle formation off the coast.  It was easy to find out about Cannon Beach.  Another place we had wanted to see was Crater National Park, so we included that location in the itinerary.  A couple of church friends had left New Jersey for this area a few years ago, so we also plan to visit them (their availability is towards the end of our trip).  We are otherwise open as to what we plan to do during this week.  I did made hotel reservations for all the nights we will be here, thus limiting how “haphazard” our itinerary would be.

Monday 10/14.  Ellie and family came down to our house Sunday afternoon, and this morning Anne went with the grandchildren to do a hayride and pumpkin-picking at a local farm.  Kuau drove our VW to Newark to drop us off before going back to Hoboken – we will pick up the car when we get back next week.

We had dinner at Garden State Diner in Terminal C, and that was enough to occupy the extra time we had for having been dropped off at around 4:30 pm for a 7:50 pm flight.  The 737-900 was quite full, and I felt quite packed in during the flight, even with an aisle-E+ seat.  I did snag a free burger because of my 1K status.

The rental car we checked out is a Subaru Forester.  We may need its AWD in case it snows in the Cascades.  It was a short drive to the hotel, but it was close to 11:30 pm.  We were given a room on the first floor.  I couldn’t get the door open as the latch seemed to have caught.  A maintenance guy was close by, so he used a tool to get the door to open.  There was luggage on the floor, so we simply went back to the front desk to ask for another key.  The front desk blamed it on the “system,” which isn’t unreasonable.  A couple of interesting observations: if there was someone in that room, they never stirred; and the front desk lady seemed very calm and wasn’t disturbed at all.  One would assume this seldom happens; it certainly was the first time it happened to me (although one time at a Newark Airport hotel it came close).

After settling into our new room, we went to the 24-hour diner Shari’s for a light meal.

A side remark, because I was going to be flying three times this past 30 days, I subscribed to United’s inflight internet package.  Joe Jr was texting me about Harrison being in hospital because of stridor.  That got Anne and I worried a bit.  He was discharged late that evening, and appeared to be doing better.

 We woke up the next day to see nicely colored trees outside our hotel room.  There was nice foliage throughout our trip.  (I am in Boston as I type this, and the foliage here isn't nearly as nice.)

I have found Subaru's to be very reliable cars, having owned an Outback for many years.  Our confidence in the brand is well-placed as this Forester took us on a 7-day 1300+ mile trip without any problems.

Accommodations: Fairfield Portland Airport (1 night).

Tuesday 10/15.  Today is Crater Lake National Park day.  Crater Lake NP is located about 4 hours from Portland.  We left the hotel at about 10 am, and got to Chemult a little after 3 pm.  Most of the excess time was taken up by our having lunch at a dinner (Sunrise Café) in the town of Pleasant Hill after we passed Eugene: perhaps we should set our expectations when it comes to speed of service in this part of the country.

After checking in at the Eagle Lake Crater Inn, a roadside motel that’s about as rundown as any I have stayed at (except that time in Nashville), we decided to head out for the NP.  We ended up driving around the rim once, in a clockwise direction, and hit many of the more popular lookouts.

Crater Lake was the result of volcanic activity in the area from about 7 to 8,000 years ago.  The volcano is technically only dormant, but I suppose there is little risk of any eruption while we are here. At around 600 meters deep, it is the deepest lake in the United States.  All the water is from precipitation, and there are no streams draining it.  What I don’t understand is how the lake seems to maintain its water surface level, which Wikipedia states as 6178 feet.

In any case, the lookouts we visited included: Cloudcap Overlook, at 7865 ft the highest point along the drive; Pumice Castle Overlook; and Phantom Ship Overlook.  Since we didn’t want to be driving when it was dark, and sunset was around 6:25 pm, we left in time to get to Loree’s Chalet Restaurant at around 6:40 pm, and had dinner there.

 Various geological features around Crater Lake are given names, some more imaginative than others.  This is Pumice Castle (zoom in the orange part right of center).

 This is the Phantom Ship.

 Wizard Island.

 A panoramic photo of the lake where both the Phantom Ship and Wizard Island can be seen.

The Eagle Crater Lake Inn where we spent a cold night - the heat was barely working.

Accommodations: Eagle Lake Crater Inn, Chemult (1 night).

Miles driven today: about 320.

Wednesday 10/16.  We both went to bed quite early last night.  There was not much to do in town after dinner.  The heating unit (inverter) in our room was not working properly as far as we could tell, but it did manage to heat up the room a bit so we weren’t worried that we would freeze to death – the low was 30F during the night.

As a result, we also woke up early, and had breakfast at KJ’s Café up the street.  One location around Crater Lake we missed yesterday was Pinnacles Overlook.  The pinnacles are the “chimneys” that formed by the mineral deposit of the steam escaping from fumaroles, and these stacks are exposed as the surrounding ash and pumice get eroded away.  These interesting structures were certainly worth the hour detour we had to make.

 These structures were formed when the pumice and ash around fumaroles were eroded away over the years. 

One can see pinnacles emerging across the river (Wheeler Creek).

The drive from the Overlook to the Tule Lake National Monument a little over 2 hours, more as we stopped in Klamath Falls for lunch.  There is a local museum (admission $3 per senior) that described the local history, including the period during WWII where Americans and residents of Japanese descent were relocated to several camps in the US.  The one in Newell, about 7 miles south, was the largest, holding about 20,000 at its peak.  This is a dark chapter in US history, but the effort to preserve that seemed quite inadequate.  At the National Monument are a watch tower and a barrack from that time period.  We also drove by the actual relocation camp, but tour is by appointment only, and there really isn’t a lot to see.

 Tulelake is now a quiet city with many stores along the main street closed.

 Next to the Tulelake National Monumnet is a local museum that has displays about life in the area.  Interesting to a history buff of the area.  This is a four-barrel shotgun.

 A cabin like this contains 4 housing units.  Each can accommodate a family of four.

 A guard tower from the Segregation Center (sitting on a reconstructed base).

At its peak about 20,000 people lived at this center.  All the buildings are gone now.  One has to make an appointment to go on the grounds.

The Lava Beds National Monument is quite close, but we didn’t have time to visit.  Instead we went to the Petroglyph site.  The place seems to be under renovation, and what we saw were probably graffiti carved out by vandals.  I did take the short hike to the bluff, Anne did part of that.

 Petroglyph Rock at Lava Beds National Monument.  Access is limited and the carvings we saw was graffiti.

View as seen from the Petroglyph Trail.  The short trail takes one up about 200 feet.

The drive from there to the hotel in Roseburg is 203 miles, taking about 3 ½ hours.  It rained towards the last hour of the drive, and the winding road and large number of trucks (some triple tandem) made the drive a bit tiring, but we got to the hotel at around 7 pm.  After checking in, we went to Elmer’s to have dinner.

 The kinds of trees change from one area to another.  Anne shot this while we were driving through the valley between the Cascade and Coastal Ranges.  All deciduous trees in fall foliage colors.

Elmer's has several locations in the Northwest.  Serves typical American cuisine.

Accommodation: Quality Inn Central Roseburg (1 night).

Miles driven: about 380.

Thursday 10/17.  The drive from Roseburg to Bandon, the first city we visited along the coast, took about 2 ½ hours.  Our route took us through some mountains and we saw many areas cleared because of logging.  While trees are a renewable resource, it’s still clear humans are having an impact on the environment.  One can argue whether that’s good or bad, but if not done with care, it’s definitely ugly.

In any case, we visited in the Bandon area the Coquille Lighthouse, admired how rough the inlet to the river was, and saw a series of rocks including table rock and face rock.  Lunch was in Bandon, where along the waterfront there are three restaurants, two of them quite crowded.  We went for Bandon Bait and Tackle and had the fried oysters and fried shrimp dishes.

 Coquille River Lighthouse stands guard at the mouth of the inlet.

 The conditions are so severe that I doubt any boat would try to make it into or out of the inlet.

These are huge waves that keep on coming.

 The Oregon Coast is known for its ruggedness and the many rocks along the shore.  Many of them have been given names.  This one has a hole in the middle, and no name as far as I could tell.

 Along the Bandon waterfront are a few restaurants (two are seen in this photo).  They were doing good business, so we had lunch at the one furthest away.

 Fried oysters and shrimp from Bandon Fish and Tackle, together with Clam Chowder.

 People were trapping dungeness crabs on the pier.  We saw some family brought up three, all too small to be kept.

They had to let this one go because it was too small.  Unfortunately for the crab, the seagulls waiting around grabbed it and gobbled it up.

Continuing down US101, we also visited a couple of sites including one of the two haystacks along the coast (note: turns out there are three haystack rocks), and in the Port Orford area Battle Rock where white settlers fought the local tribes and laid claim to the land without a treaty.

 Battle Rock, Port Orford.  Many natives were killed because settlers wanted the land.

We will end up seeing three haystack rocks on this trip.  This one (in the back) was the first.  Not quite what I would expect.

It was about 6 pm when we checked in our hotel, and it was raining heavily.  Dinner was at Shark Bites, a very popular restaurant along the town’s main street (US101 South bound).

I had a long IM chat with a T-mobile about my being an “extreme roamer.”  I attribute that to the T-mobile system’s not recognizing I had returned to the US, and thus believe I kept roaming overseas.  Even that didn’t make a whole lot of sense.  Except the representative kept suggesting I use options (such as local SIM and WiFi calling) that don’t make much sense.

Accommodation: Edgewater Coos Bay (1 night).

Miles driven: about 190.

Friday 10/18.  I had thought today was going to be an easy day, basically a drive from Coos Bay to Cannon Beach; how hard can it be?  Well, I miscalculated.  A straightaway drive from Coos Bay to Cannon Beach would take about 4 ½ hours, and we wanted to visit a few places along the way.  We ended up leaving at around 9:30 am, and checking into the Cannon Beach hotel at around 7 pm.

Coos Bay, Charleston and North Bend are together known as the Tri-City, even they are a good 15 or miles from one another.  We first drove to Charleston, a working port for fishing boats.  The next place we planned to visit was the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area.  Along the way we first hit the Umpqua Lighthouse.

 Edgewater Hotel is indeed located next to a river that drains into Coos Bay.

Charleston is one of the cities of Tri-City.  It appears to be more of a working town than a tourist one.

The Umpqua Lighthouse.

The sand dunes along this part of the Oregon Coast provide ample opportunities for outdoor activities.  We hiked the trail from the Day Use area: about a mile each way, involving climbing a dune that’s about 120 ft tall.  That took up about an hour, which wasn’t in our original plan.  We made a hasty visit to the South Jetty, and saw people riding an OHV (Off Highway Vehicles).

 We took the one-mile (each way) hike from the Visitor Center of the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area to the beach.  The hike was generally level, except for the dunes at the beginning where sometimes we had trouble finding firm footing.  The dunes in the background are about 120 feet high.

 Panoramic photo.

 This colorful mushroom along the trail is poisonous.  Who needs cannabis when you have these treasures (recreational use of marijuana is legal in Oregon, and we drove by many dispensaries).

We stopped by Florence for lunch, and then visited Seal Rock (no more seals) and Devil’s Punchbowl before heading to Cannon Beach.  The rained held off during most of the day, but got heavy at times during our last drive.  Our room faces the ocean and should have a good view of the haystack rock.  It was already dark when we checked in, so I couldn’t see a thing.

 The ICM Restaurant (International C-Food Market) in Florence.

Water rushes in with the waves at the Devil's Punchbowl.  We have seen pictures where the entire structure is filled with sea water.  No such luck today, even though it was around high tide.

Another example of relentless waves hitting the shore.  This at Seal Rock.

Dinner was at the Wayfarer Restaurant across the street.  A rather fancy establishment with an Executive Chef and limited selection, with prices to match.  Anne had the razor clam (somewhat like the geoy duck,) I had the poached salmon; both dishes were mediocre both in presentation and in taste.  Since there weren’t too many other dining options this late in the day, we were okay with that.

We have never had razor clams before, and not particularly fond of its texture or its taste.

A short remark about the hotel.  I couldn’t find any reasonable offering on Hotels.com, but came across this hotel on Google Maps.  The booking was done over the phone.  I had no idea what we would be walking into; but I must say it’s okay.  All the rooms in this small established are booked tonight.

Accommodations: Ecola Inn, Cannon Beach (2 nights).

Miles driven: about 250.

Saturday 10/19.  We basically stayed in today to enjoy the view afforded by our room.  Anne woke up early for a walk to the haystack rock, about ½ mile south of our inn.  I joined her for another walk a little bit later.

 I found this small inn (about 14 rooms) on Google Maps.  The proprietor is 90 years old and have been living in the area for over 60 years.

 The premium we paid for an oceanview room was well worth it.  This is what we see from the room; the formations are a good 0.5 miles south of the hotel.

 For me this was a well-shot selfie.

 We asked a passer-by to take a photo for us.  Evidently different people focus on different things.

 Anne took this photo, complete with the sea foam in the foreground.

 A panoramic view of the rocks.

This is facing north looking towards Ecola State Park, taken late in the afternoon.

For lunch we drove to Seaside, a town about 10 miles north that is more touristy, complete with a carousel and a time share complex.  Nothing wrong with that, it looked busy enough, so we wondered what it would be like during the heavy summer months.  Norma offers reasonably priced lunches.

Seaside is about 10 miles north of Cannon Beach.  Much more commercial in nature, complete with arcades and time-share resorts.

Our next stop was Ecola State Park which occupies the Tillamook Headlands.  We first drove to the Indian Beach and took a short hike to see the Tillamook Rock Lighthouse which had an unfortunate history of having an early contractor swept out to sea, and the lighthouse itself damaged severely by a storm.  When we stopped by the main parking area, we found it also offered a nice view of the lighthouse (little hiking required) and of Cannon Beach.

 View towards Cannon Beach from Ecola State Park.

 It's not just haystack rocks, the coastal views are excellent.

 And one can simply look down and appreciate the diverse flora on the ground.

Tillamook Rock Lighthouse can be seen after a short hike.  It can also be seen from the Park's main parking area without much of a walk.

Throughout the day there would be showers, sometimes on the heavy side, but we managed to do quite a bit of walking.

 Imagine what it would be like without clouds.  We were grateful that it was dry at sunset.

Dinner was salmon and steak cooked in the kitchen in the room.  The meal was as good as any we have eaten so far, and we had a great view to boot.  And it cost considerably less.

Miles driven: 25.

Sunday 10/20.  We found out there was a third haystack, this one near Pacific City, and decided to give it a visit.  The drive was about 2 hours given the detour onto the “Three Capes Drive” we took.  At about 350 feet it is actually taller than the much better known one at Cannon Beach (235 feet).  It was raining and misty when we got there, so we only stopped for a short while.

 One consequence of rainy weather is the appearance of rainbows.  We saw many on this trip.

 It could get quite windy on the beach.  These wisps are sand being blown along the beach.

 One last glimpse of the rocks before we left Cannon Beach.

 No, the needles didn't go missing.  This is a different Haystack Rock located off Pacific City.  It is about 100 feet higher than the one in Cannon Beach.

Along the way we stopped by the Tillamook Outlet for some beef jerky.  The prices were about 30% to 50% cheaper than those in Cannon Beach.

This place was doing great business.  Prices were good.

On the way back we stopped by the Tillamook Forest Center where the most significant thing we learned was these fires that wiped out a lot of the trees in the area.  About 72 million trees were planted over 20 years to re-establish the forests of today.

 The Tillamook Forest Center as seen from the tower.

 Nice Fall colors.

 A watch tower replica is next to the Center.  The compass in the middle provides a direction for triangulation.

Part of the re-planted forest after much of the forest was burned down (starting in 1930s).

Before checking into our hotel, we stopped by Powell’s, which claims itself to be the largest independent new and used bookstore in the world.  It was quite busy this Sunday afternoon, although we didn’t see lines at the cash registers.  I did enjoy a cup of coffee and a cookie there.

Powell's of Portland claims to be the largest independent bookstore in the world.

Accommodations: La Quinta Inn, Vancouver, WA (1 night).

Miles driven: approximately 180

Monday 10/21.  The day was spent with David and Helen H.  We have known them for over 25 years; they have moved out to the Portland area for about 5 years to be closer with their children (2) and grandchildren (6).

We hadn't seen David and Helen since they move to the Portland area more than five years ago to be closer to their children.  It was good to catch up.

After lunch prepared by Helen, we started on a short trip along the Columbia River, visiting Crown Point, Vista House, Multnomah Falls, and the Bonneville Dam.

 View of Vista House from Crown Point.

 Multnomah Falls consists of two main cascades, captured nicely here by Anne.

 The bridge is built over the break between the two falls.

Displays in the Bonneville Dam center provide information about the project and how the fish ladders help the fish swim up the Columbia river.  The two power stations at this location provide more than 1 gigawatts of power.

After dinner at a new Hunan Restaurant in the area, we drove back to the airport with a lot of time to spare before our 11:45 pm redeye flight.  Capers Café le Bar offered Priority Pass members a generous food allowance, which we took advantage of.  We were both upgraded to First and managed to have side-by-side seats in the 737-900.  Neither of us got much sleep, though.

We uber’d home, Anne went to church for her class, and I tried to catch up with various chores.  We would spend one night at home and would drive to Boston the next day (Wednesday).

Total miles on rental car: 1348 miles.