OR and WA Trip

This past summer I took a trip to Oregon and Washington to visit colleges. From Honolulu, I went to Portland, Oregon by plane. Without counting the small, out-of-the-way stops for food and other small colleges, I then rode a car chauffeured by my parents down to Corvallis to check out OSU. The next day, I went to Eugene which is even farther down south to look at U of O. My parents and I decided to go rafting the next day, so we drove east and came back when we were done. When we were finally ready to leave Oregon towards Washington, which is up north, we took a small detour through Beaverton and Forest Grove to look at Pacific U. From there we drove all the way to Seattle via I-5. When we were finished , we flew back to Honolulu.

Although the total distance I traveled was a lot, the farthest I actually got from Honolulu was only about 2,680 miles which is the distance from Honolulu to Seattle. My trip reminded me of some graphing we did in class where we had to add vectors to get to our final destination. If I decided to add up all the component vectors of my trip through the use of trigonometry or geometry, I would have ended up in Seattle.