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Bend motorcyclist sets out on 70,000-mile trip around the world (BB)

“Many folks dream of traveling and seeing the world.
Very few find a way to cross nearly every single continent and more than 60 countries in two years.
But that is the plan for Bend’s Elli Callan, who left his parents’ home in Sunriver on his audacious 70,000-mile motorcycle trip around the globe on Monday.

“If I were his age, in his shoes, I’d do the same thing,” said Eli’s mother Laura Lee Coffman, tears forming in her her eyes as her son prepared to set out. “Everybody has a dream, and most people, 99.9 percent, they don’t do it. I think it’s a phenomenal goal, and to finally be here today and he’s leaving? This is years and years of saving and planning, and just a dream come true.”
It is a dream more than 15 years in the making, since Callan, now 38, spent a summer working at a cannery in Seward, Alaska, meeting other kids from around the world who changed his perspective.
“After that summer, I just had this burning desire to travel and see the world, and see how these people I met were living,” Callan said. “It just developed into this thing, and the more research I did, my mind was just constantly wandering. And then, you know, I started coming across these people that had done motorcycle trips.”

Callan, who grew up in Sisters, was a student at Oregon State University in Corvallis when he started the research for his trip. He went on to become a geologist in Bend, and the dream stayed with him.
As he entered his late 30s, he felt a sense of urgency, knowing this might be the perfect time in his life, single without children, for a two-year odyssey.
“It was like, well, you’re 38 now. You can postpone, you know, house, kids and all that stuff,” Callan said. “You can do this trip and if you don’t do it now, it’s probably not going to happen. And so I just, you know, went for it.”

Amid postal service uncertainty, Oregon election officials turn to ballot drop boxes (OPB)

“Oregon election officials want voters to choose the drop box over the mailbox this Election Day.

And as a fight over the postal service’s role in the November election plays out in federal court, they’re asking state lawmakers for emergency funding to make sure Oregonians have plenty of places to deposit their ballots.

Secretary of State Tobias Read is requesting nearly $500,000 to purchase 20 new drop boxes for the Nov. 3 election, and to compensate elections officials for what he expects will be an increased use of ballot drop boxes this year.

“Due to uncertainty surrounding mail-in ballots and how they are processed by the U.S. Postal Service, [the Secretary of State’s Office] will be encouraging Oregonians to use ballot boxes to drop off their ballots instead of mailing them, especially closer to Election Day,” reads a funding request lawmakers will consider when they meet in Salem next week for periodic committee hearings.

The request is tied to years-old concerns that USPS changes have resulted in slower processing of mail – including ballots. That could mean a ballot mailed on or near Election Day doesn’t receive a postmark at the sole processing facility in Portland in time to be counted.

But the push for emergency funding also comes amid a fight over the very underpinnings of mail-in voting in Oregon and other states.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled last week that a lawsuit challenging the policy was filed prematurely, before the postal service had posted its final rule on the matter. States, including Oregon, immediately filed a new lawsuit, which resulted in a federal judge in Massachusetts blocking Trump’s order.

The Supreme Court could soon take up the matter once again, with fewer than two months to go before this year’s election.

Oregon officials have said repeatedly they are confident that the Nov. 3 election will play out as usual. But Read, a Democrat elected to office in 2024, now wants money to make sure things go smoothly.

The funding request includes $1,000 for each of the state’s more than 300 ballot drop boxes, which Read says will help local elections officials cover costs tied to higher drop box use. The Secretary of State’s Office did not immediately specify what those costs are when asked Tuesday.”

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