Saturday camping trip?

Rolled out of town around noon. Meant to leave much earlier. Picked up Kyle in McMinneville and headed west on a two lane road. Within 20 miles the road was dirt and logging roads split off every couple hundred yards. We took the jeep up into the hills and after a while of driving came upon a puddle that was pretty large. I accelerated into the puddle and made it to the bottom, before water rushed into the cab. It was much deeper than we thought. Managed to keep the engine running and Kelly got out and pushed while I threw it into 4-wheel drive. For a couple minutes, we thought we were going to be there for awhile. With Kelly's help and the 4wd, we got out of the puddle. As I was backing out of it, I saw some plastic floating near the surface. It turns out the water had knocked a bunch of stuff loose under the hood. The jeep kept running though, and we were able to take everything that was hanging, completely off. Made it past the puddle by driving around the edge. It almost pulled me back in to the center. A little while later, covered in mud and feeling pretty excited about things, we decided to head to the beach for a some ocean time. It was sunny and warm on the east side of the mountains but by the time we hit the west side, it was in the 60's. We were still wet from the puddle and the wind was chilly. We stopped in at a roadside bar and had some really fantastic fish. They'd probably caught it earlier that day.

Woke up early this morning pretty groggy. It had rained during the night and we were in for some more cold driving back to Portland. The sun finally came out shortly after we passed Clackamas, 3 miles from home. Fun trip. Short, but fun.