Crazy Couple Months

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I have more zits now than I did as a teenager. Stress zits.

It has definitely been a busy couple of months. I feel we've been running crazy for sure.  Prior to that we were trying to beat the winds and storms as we made our way north.  We even stopped for a couple weeks reprieve and played on the ATVS.  Remember that?  It wasn’t so crazy then.  That seemed normal.  It’s amazing what has become normal and what isn’t normal anymore.

Remember the fun times?

In the past we had a little place with a small cabin where we would move our RV in occasionally when in the Northwest.  Then, without much thought and a buyer standing there with cash in his hand, we sold it.  For a while we thought we made a poor decision.  We regretted selling so fast.  We actually liked the idea of a little dirt so our days were spent looking at other places where we might have that dirt. We looked at the beach and we looked at acreage but nothing seemed quite right.  Then, we looked back at other recreational lots and ended up with another place that was very similar to what we had before but different.  This is what crazy is all about and we were more than crazy, we were obsessed.

It seems this project will never be done.  We moved from one necessary and must-do project to another.  You know what they say .. there is no rest for the wicked.  We must be pretty wicked because we’ve had no rest from this and I’m definitely feeling the stress.  Am I complaining?  You betcha!  It's my blog and I can if I want.

I’m tired of going to Home Depot for building materials, lamps, fans, carpets, counters and just about everything else that comes with setting up another place. I'm just tired of Home Depot.  There seems to be so many projects just around the corner.  We’ve started on some without finishing others letting the weather dictate our projects.  Isn’t this what we thought we left behind? 

Our latest project is pictured on our trailer below.  Notice that a dozen 6’ arborvitaes are just waiting to be planted.  We’ve waited long enough for volunteers to show up to help.  We waited.  We waited and finally figured we better get started ourselves.  Where are the friends when you need them? 

On Wednesday I was happy the craziness left for a while.  Terry promised we didn't have to go to Home Depot.  It was a great day with sun, no shopping, a little work planting those arborvitaes and a lot of sitting around in that gorgeous sunshine.   The arborvitaes didn't quite go as far as we wanted them too so on Thursday it was off  to get more.  Working outside isn't so bad when the sun is shining.

I feel like an RVer in waiting … I’m waiting for a little time to pass so we can get on the road again. We’ll only be heading a couple hundred miles north but the get-away sure sounds inviting right now and I know by the time we leave a lot of these projects will be behind us.  Isn’t that how snowbirds feel when winter starts to show up?

By the way ... HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, TAMMI AND ROBERT!

‘Tis life in an RV.

Sandcastles and Rain Forests

“Children are the world’s most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.  ~ John F Kennedy

I just can't believe it's time to post another blog.  I try to do it every other day but sometimes that's too often.  How do you daily posters have the time to keep it up?? Didn't I just post a blog?  All I have ready are a couple little fillers .... this is one of those.

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Most bloggers I know seem to run around with a camera on their hip (kind of like me).  They have to take photos of everything they see.  Then, they post the photos on their blog.  Just like me they like to enjoy their own pictures and those others post too.  Pictures posted by other bloggers tend to sometimes jog memories. That's a good thing. Keeping our photos help us relive events in our lives.  We can watch our children and grandchildren grow up all over again.  We can relive those vacations we once took or remember those who have gone on before us.  We also get to document our life on wheels in the RV -- as most of us do including those dreaded campgrounds we've pulled into only to pull out of as fast as we could!

I love reading the stories and looking at the pictures from others. Blogging is entertainment. So, I'm entertained when I write and I'm entertained when I read.   Maybe I'm just easily entertained  .... not!

After reading a few "back when" blogs I started going through my own photos .. the digital photos for now.  I have hundreds of other ones that I’m sure I’ll never get scanned.  That can be quite a project.  I actually thought that would be one project I could easily tackle once we became RVers.  Not so. I was just fooling myself.   That was before I realized how busy we'd really be.  If I didn't have time to do it before, I certainly don't have time to do it now.


The other day I started looking for some of the sandcastles we saw at Cannon Beach.  Friends of ours had posted a blog from their recent stopover filled with sandcastles so I started digging and found a few. Then, another blogger mentioned the rain forest.  Well, I had some rain forest photos too someplace  … even though it was a different rain forest.  The one he was talking about was in Canada.  The photos I had were in South America.  Again, one thing led to another and now I was sorting pictures and sorting more pictures.  These are the result of the frenzy that resulted from reading two blogs and then sorting all those photos.  What happened to my sandcastle photos?  Well, I got sidetracked and they are still on the disk I found them on.

After going through all those photos I thought maybe I'd do some photos on foam boards and use them as a border similar to what my brother had done.  It was pretty cool except I'm a little tired of work right now and that would be work.  However, what’s the sense of taking photos if you can’t enjoy them over and over again?

Other than family photos my favorite ones are of wildlife.  However, shots of people sometimes make for very interesting subjects.  Photos can tell a story even without the words.    These are pictures of four children who live in the Rain Forest along the Amazon River.  They were as curious of us as we were of them.

Sure there’s a story to this but for right now I just enjoyed going back looking at the photos I took and especially the ones of the precious children.  Not all of my photos from the Amazon are blog-worthy.  Some of the photos looked like a segment from the National Geographic channel.  I'm sure you know exactly what I'm talking about.

Now if you happen to ask if you can do this trip in your RV.  I would say NO!  However, I have discovered there are some folks out there much more adventuresome than we are.  Many places you travel to people speak English.  We have been to several where they do not.  This is one of them so I would not recommend trying to get your RV there.  To begin with you'd need to attach pontoons as the only roads in the area are rivers or trails through the jungle.

Whee ... I've just bought myself couple days by posting this "filler" blog. 

‘Tis definitely life on the road …. or in this case, it was on the river.

It's Starting Out to be a Very Busy Summer!

 

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.

Just ask us how busy we’ve been.  Just ask us.   Heck, I’m going to tell you anyway so you don’t even have to ask.  I bet you saw that one coming.

Mom and her new baby.

Lots of deer in this whole area.

You already know we’ve had our hands full with the little recreation lot we recently wrote about.  Over the last month (or is it two)  we’ve had the addition sheetrocked, painted, carpeted and so on.  Blinds are up, cabinets added, furniture in place and even a television set in place.  There were lots of projects and lots of trips to Home Depot.  We’ve crossed some things off the list but still have a lot more to go.  In addition to the inside work, there was also outside work including pavers, gravel and dirt that needed done.  We've tackled a lot but I'm really ready for another break. 

Lots finished but lots unfinished.  At least it's finished enough for Terry to take a break and work on a puzzle.

Where are your friends when you need them?  Well, I can tell you this.  They certainly weren’t here helping!  We aren’t done yet.  We got the approval today for some backhoe work and screened planting so that’ll be next.  We are also waiting for a bid on a little wrap-around deck.  The price will determine whether we have that deck done this year or not.

 

In addition we went to a high school graduation party for Michael.  We were informed by two others at the party that they were graduates this year too.  No way could I take a picture of Michael without letting Zack and Sophia pose too.  It was the tears and tempers I was most concerned about.

The next day we had a belated Father’s Day get together.  Why is it our get togethers are always centered around food. I’m beginning to think I’m hanging with the wrong crowd. The people I’m around always seem to think celebrations need to be spent eating. They may not catch those calories but I certainly do.

Monday was to be a little catch up day but it didn’t happen.  My brother was moving AGAIN!  This is the third time he’s moved since we’ve been up north. At least this move was just a little move. He was moving down the hallway to a different room in the retirement home where he lives.

Other than a short stop off to visit my 93-year old Aunt Jenny, we hightailed it back to our own little nest..  She is now home from the rehab center after breaking her hip.  However, she now has round the clock live-in help but she’s in her own home and that’s good news!

Our week late Father's Day dinner.

By summarizing the last week I can say that I'm caught up on blogging.  There it is!  I'm done for now.

‘Tis life on the road.

Been There, Done That

“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe”……Anatole France

We’ve been lots of places.  We had crossed all fifty states off long before we started moving around in an RV.  We’ve been there and done that but we haven’t really done that.  I’m guessing you probably know what I mean.

The plan to visit all 50 states didn’t have any criteria.  I mean we didn’t have to sleep there.  We didn’t have to spend any time there really.  We just had to put our foot on the ground.  There were a few states we barely did that in.  North Dakota was one of those.  It was the last state and had been the last state for quite some time.  We crossed over from Minnesota, drove a few miles before turning around and headed back to the airport in Minneapolis.    I guess that means we’ve been there but not really done that.

We’ve visited some pretty great places but we’ve also done so very little in other places.  There are many things we’d like to do, many places we’d like to go again. I'd love to do the Civil War battlefields.  I'd love to see places we haven't seen.  However, we seem to keep dragging our feet and just doing the same stuff over and over.

 

Now some folks we know settle down during the winter months and explore during the summer months.  We have been a little opposite in that we have been pretty content hanging around family during the summer.  After all they are definitely in a location that is not considered a winter destination. 

Travel during the winter months is limited due to weather.  You’ve got to stay south ….. way south.  One year we traveled along the gulf coast and into Florida.  Other than that we’ve mostly hung around the southwestern states moving north as the weather started to warm early in the year.  We can say we’ve really been there and done that over and over again.  We’re definitely ready for a change.  We want to go someplace different this year.  We don’t know where but just that’s what we’d like to do.  Will we?  I don’t know. 

Last year we had planned on being Winter Texans.  Then, we bought ATVs and took them with us.  That shortened our travel distance.  This year .... we're still undecided but we're thinking.

It seems most RVing snowbirds (or is it sunbirds) tend to spend the winter pretty much in the same location each year.  We don’t want to do this but that doesn’t mean we have any idea where we want to go.  Is it too much to ask for something new with perfect weather, beautiful scenery and reasonable prices?  The search is on.  Half the fun of travel is the research.  Where will it be?  We have no idea but we aren’t looking around Arizona.  Just where is that perfect place?

‘Tis life on the road.

Is It Your Blog or My Blog?

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason 

and critical analysis.” ~~ Dalai Lama

We all follow some blogs, are religious about reading others and have stopped following even more for one reason or another. We can read what we want, write what we want and if we want.  Sometimes we start following a blog because that blogger is writing about things or places we are interested in or maybe it’s because another blogger made a comment on ours and we want to reciprocate.  It might be the blogger’s style or maybe we know the blogger so are really interested in following their blog.  Whatever the reason some we like and some we don’t so much.  We’re all different, see things differently and interpret things differently.  Thank goodness for that because we definitely all like different things.  This also applies to blogs. Isn’t that true?  If you agree that it’s true then why is it there are so many authorities telling us how our blog should be written?

Over the last few months there have been several blogs posted regarding what makes a good blog.  I didn't pay much attention to them originally.  That is I hadn't paid much attention until one specific blog became the off-line topic of discussion with several blogging friends -- perhaps, writers of blogs you may also follow. It was then I went back and read several of these blogs.

The earlier blogs just gave suggestions on their thoughts of what made a good blog.  It was just their opinion.  Most were about personal preferences on form and appearance  --  many of which I really did agree with – but not all.  I didn’t agree with some because it just didn’t work for me.  If suggestions don’t work for you, you don’t have to go along with anyone’s ideas but your own.  Their opinion isn't the law.  An example of one that didn't work for me, was the suggestion of putting pictures in a slideshow instead of posting on the blog.  I rarely view slideshows or videos.  If my friends have pictures, I want to see them on their blogs.  That's how we communicate.  Also, I’m an RVer and internet is off an aircard.  I might post a small video or slide show but it is very rare that I do.   Even when I upload pictures mine have already been resized to reduce upload time.  That's my preference.

Recently suggestions on what makes a good blog became pretty popular.   The original idea was to make the blog itself easier to read.  I guess a few folks figured if they had been writing one for a couple of years, they were the experts.  They just posted their opinions.   We all have our opinions and that's what a blog is about -- expressing our opinions.  However, then it changed to content of an RVers blog.  In other words the suggestions on appearance of the blog became suggestions on what you should or should not put in your blog. Golly, ever thought about having someone else write your blog for you? 

One blogger didn’t want to see pictures of flowers, family, pets or wildlife.  The blogger didn't want to read about a travel journal or craft projects and added this   …….” provide a link for the three people who want to look at them?”     Was that last little comment really necessary?     It’s simple …. if you don’t like a blog, don’t read it.  Don't insult other bloggers just because they don't post to please you.  We all have the choice to read a blog or not.    Read the ones you enjoy and not the ones you don’t.

Another blogger reminded us that our blogs should be limited to the RV lifestyle and if you want to write about something else, you should start another blog.    Write what's on your mind and not what's on someone else's mind.  After all ... it is your blog.

RVers do many things that have nothing to do with dumping tanks and solar panels or even being on the road and in a campground.  That doesn't mean they don't have lots of things to share.  They do and this includes their thoughts, beliefs, vacations, home projects, family, day to day life and many other things when they aren’t actually in an RV.  Face it ... some people are just better writers than others but it still doesn't mean we don't want to follow them.   In many cases we get to know the writer by their blog.  We follow the writer no matter what it's about. Some folks like to know about others and some folks only want others to know about them.  We’ve met them?  Haven’t you?  Blogging gives you the ability to do both as it levels the playing field. 

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The following are a few comments left by other bloggers.  I think these comments were very appropriate.

... . "blogging gives an opportunity to be creative yourself.  It’s our little outlet to enjoy the creative side of ourselves with writing and photography. 

…. “It is my blog and my thoughts…nuff said! “ 

…..”Ideas and suggestions are not rules, nor are they guidelines; they are simply what I said they are – “ideas and suggestions”.

…. “If you don’t like how someone writes it or you don’t like their content, just don’t read it.”

….. “What ever happened to blogging just being a fun hobby? ..never mind trying to fit a ‘square peg in a round hole’! “

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Whatever we want to write about and whatever pictures we want to post .. that’s just what we should do. It’s your blog so go for it!! When others want to tell you what to read, what to write about or what music to listen to, roll your eyes and ignore them.

That’s my blog and that's my opinion.   However, now I’m going to go search for pictures to attach.   I’m one who loves the little photos … mine, yours or even clipart.  To me a blog without pictures is like a day without sunshine.

‘Tis life on the road …. or sometimes parked in a driveway.

A Day of Rest – Well, Not Really

 

Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Sunday was Father’s Day and we took a break out of our touring activities.  Actually Marsha and Paul wore us out.  Or, was it the other way around??  We really aren’t sure who was to blame but we do know we took the day off.

It wasn’t really supposed to be a Father’s Day outing or the actual celebration of it for us.  Remember the Texas reunion for Sabrina’s family?  Well, Sabrina was still there and we had already decided that this family would celebrate Father’s Day on the following Sunday -- the 24th.  When we made that decision we  didn’t think all three fathers --  Terry, Lee and Robert – would be around on the 17th.  We thought Lee would be in Texas along with Sabrina.  After looking at the weekend flights he decided not to go after all.  The flights were tight  and he didn’t feel like spending a day or two at the airport if he didn’t have to.  Who could blame him?

 

We did get together for breakfast.  That’s the one thing we did do together on Father’s Day and before we each went our own way.  After that Terry and I hung blinds, watered plants, shoveled gravel and then filled up on watermelon.  The good weather was still hanging around in this location but Monday a few clouds were expected to bring a some drops of rain.  It’s better to shovel gravel on a nice day than a rainy day.  Ask me how I know that?

That’s right there was no touring for us.  We had work to do.  Finishing up on this little summer home base project is at the top of our priority list.  We need to get it done so we have play time.  The goal is to spend at least a few nights there this summer.  We hope we can make that happen.

We did have time to have a “Last Supper” at the Elks with Marsha and Paul.  They are still in touring mode and have so much left to see and do on their whirlwind trip.  It was fun.  We had a great time.  It was so nice to be able to take a little break.  However, now I’m wondering if hitch itch is contagious because I’m starting to think we need to get back on the road a bit.  However, there still is work to do.  I guess that goes with having an RV and also a home base.  I'm beginning to think it won't be finished this year.  Besides what's the rush? 

‘Tis life on the road.

Portland – City of Roses

 

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.

 

Day two of our whirlwind tour guiding services in the Portland area started early.  Actually, we always start fairly early and I really can’t blame the Weavers for that.  I can try but doubt they would let us get away with it since we’re the ones that set the time.  You know how it goes, the early bird gets the worm.  Really we think the early bird misses most of the crowds. That we like to do … miss the crowds.

Portland is also famous for the water fountains.  A list of them are here.

Portland – City of Water Fountains

We were going to start with Breakfast at Valerie’s. This is a little restaurant in a strip mall east of Vancouver. We’ve had breakfast here a couple times and will probably continue going back again and again. Portions are huge, service good and prices very reasonable … at least that’s the review for the place when we’ve been there. However, breakfast was not to be as other folks felt the same we do and packed the restaurant with lines out the door. We were sightseeing this day and had no time to wait in any lines so off we went.

Portland's Saturday Market

Entertainment - Playing plastic buckets

Our first stop was downtown Portland in a lot just around the corner from the Saturday Market.  I love going to Saturday Markets just about everywhere.  You never know what you’re going to find.  Most of the items are unique and it’s usually fairly festive with lots of street entertainment.  We weren’t disappointed.  We both even made a few little purchases.  Ironically, some of them were the same things.  It’s also a great place to do a people watching.  Again, you never know what you’ll see.

Shopping at the market

Boombox Anywhere as seen on Shark Tank!!

Paul and Marsha were sure that Chinatown would be an interesting place to visit.  After all, they had spent a little time in the Chinatown in San Francisco.  We assured them that Portland's Chinatown didn't compare to San Francisco's.  However, we were only a couple blocks away so headed that direction.  They did finally agree that there is no comparison.

Entrance to Chinatown

It was still early but we wanted to show them one of our favorite places, Dan and Louis’ Oyster Bar.  We weren’t really ready to eat yet (after all, we had just downed a big cinnamon roll) but we did get a chance to walk through it and take a look.  This restaurant is right across the street from the Saturday Market so if you’re downtown and looking for a unique place to eat, check this one out. 

Next stop --- Washington Park and the Rose Garden.  Portland is known as the City of Roses.  Thus, you knew there just had to be a special Rose Garden someplace close.  At about two miles from the center of town is a gorgeous park filled with Roses.  It’s a close jaunt to the Japanese Gardens and the Portland Zoo from here via the Zoo Train.  Saturday was a gorgeous day and people were everywhere taking in the fragrant roses and view of the city from the park.  We joined in and did the same.

Portland – City of Roses

From there it was a quick drive to get on the I-405 which drops down to I-5 to cross over into Washington State and a late lunch at Who-Song and Larry’s.  We chose this place because it had outside seating along the Columbia River.  We were in for a treat because as we sat there watching the marine traffic we also got to see the bridge raise for a freighter to pass through.  Our timing just happened to be right and the Weavers hadn’t seen this before.

Across from Who-Song & Larry’s is the Old Apple Tree Park. Marsha and I wanted to see the old tree so we took the short walk across the road to check it out.   It’s a really, really small park but mainly there because of Vancouver's Old Apple Tree which was planted in 1826 on Fort Vancouver land.  It is thought to be the oldest apple tree in the Northwest. It is also considered the matriarch of Washington State's apple industry. Vancouver's Old Apple Tree is 186 years old.

That was it.  It was another great day.  We certainly enjoyed it with Paul and Marsha and reminding ourselves what a beautiful, clean city Portland is.  Check out their post on the activities of the day for more on the Saturday Market and a little different look at the area.

Vancouver's Old Apple Tree

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‘Tis life on the road.

Touring the Portland–Vancouver Area

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

 

When you’ve lived in a place for a while you don’t know where the tourist attractions are.  Well, you know where some of them are but not the ones the Chamber of Commerce or Visitor’s Center think one should necessarily visit. After all, you live there.  You aren’t just visiting.  You certainly don’t really know what other folks will want to see when they visit either.  Such has been the case with visitors in the Portland area.

We lived in this area for many, many years but that was also many years ago.  Now we hang around because of family only during the summer time.  When we have visitors show up I know a few places I like to go but it isn’t always places they’ve heard about.  Sometimes it is and sometimes it isn’t.  When Terry’s brother visited years ago we learned about places we never knew about.  One such place was the Grotto -- amazing.

Inside the Vista House

Vista House

The places I suggest now don’t necessarily include that but always include Powell’s Book Store, the waterfront and Old Town plus areas around Portland and not necessarily in the center of the town.  Of course, weather around here dictates what’s fun to see and what isn’t.  Blue skies can make a dreary tour into a pleasant one.  We have played tour guide to this area numerous times even chartering a bus once for a group.  On this day the weather was the best ever.

My point?  We have visitors.  Our full-timing friends, Marsha and Paul from Where’s Weaver, are in town.  For a couple of days we’ve been playing tour guide.  You can’t see a lot in just two days.  There are so many more places to visit but with the drive and time involved isn’t always possible to see them all.  My choice for day number one was the waterfalls area along the Columbia River.  Here’s a map and a little information. 

By heading east out of Portland on I-84 to exit 22, you can follow Historic Highway 30.  The first place of interest we stopped at was the Vista House.  Vista is a clue as to the view from this place.  On a clear day you can see forever or so it goes.  It was built about 1917 as a place to enjoy the fantastic view.  It was a little hazy in the morning the day we were there.  It was still a beautiful day and we could see quite a distance east and west up and down the Columbia River.

Shepherd Dell Falls

As Historic Highway 30 moves east on the windy little road, one waterfall after another is just a short walk from the main road.  I was a little disappointed though that the road and walkways around the waterfall at Latourell Falls was closed.  It was under repair. We drove beyond that one a short distance to the next waterfall at Shepherd Dells.

Marsha at Bridal Veil Falls

Paul at Bridal Veil Falls

Then, it was on down the road to Bridal Veil.  We walked the 2/3 mile round trip to view another gorgeous fall.  Going down to the fall was a piece of cake.  However, climbing back up we realized we needed to conserve our breath.  Sometimes talking and walking is difficult.  Can you imagine we were quiet for a spell?

Multnomah Falls

We stopped at a few more waterfalls along the road but the biggie was definitely Multnomah Falls.  This is the most popular tourist attraction in the state of Oregon in that it attracts the most visitors.  Why?  It’s the second highest waterfall in the United States falling 620 feet.  Gorgeous?  That’s an understatement.  You can climb to the top of the falls.  It's about one mile up and up some more.  The view from the top is another breathtaking glimpse of the falls but at a different angle.  There is a very picturesque hike above the falls which follows the creek and more waterfalls --- been there, done that a few times but probably won't go back.  Remember -- it's all uphill.

Horsetail Falls -  If you hike up the path, you'll be able to walk behind the upper falls. Been there and done that before and actually would like to do that again.  (Tammi?  Sabrina?  Want to go?)

We weren’t through.  Next stop -  Bonneville Fish Hatchery.  It is the largest fish hatchery in Oregon. Between Fall Chinook Salmon, Coho Salmon, Summer and Winter Steelhead the hatchery raises over 10 million hatchlings a year.  There were so many in some ponds that you could hardly make them out.  In addition to the ones that are being raised there are also viewing ponds for Rainbow Trout and Sturgeon.  The young fish will be released into the Columbia River below the dam for their travel to the Pacific Ocean and back. Adult salmon begin arriving back at the hatchery in September and are then sorted through before spawning begins.  During the late summer and early fall, visitors can witness the spawning operation.  An Egg Incubation building is also on premise.  This incubation building can house about 15 million eggs.  If you have to pick just one hatchery to visit, this is the one.

Next stop – - we moved along to the Bonneville Dam and the fish ladders. Fish ladders are built around the dam to slow the flow of water making it easier for the fish to swim to their spawning grounds upstream. Certain months of the year the ladders are full of fish. This was not one of those months. The ladders look like a maze.

Finally, it was time for lunch.  Lunch was in Cascade Locks at the base of the Bridge of the Gods which crosses over the Columbia River into Washington.  We’ve eaten here many times.  It’s just a cafeteria which sits on the edge of the bluff.  The food was great but the company and the view were even better. 

You think that was it for the day?  Not quite but we’re getting close.  Next stop was Vancouver Barracks and Officers Row.  I love this area and wanted to point out the US Grant House and Marshall House in this area.  It’s close to where the reconstructed Fort Vancouver is so if you see that, you’re close.

Bridge of the Gods

When Ulysses Grant was a Captain he served in this location.  Thus, the home was named after him.  It was built between 1849 and 1850 and currently is a restaurant.  One of these days we’re going to eat there but I keep saying that and haven’t made it yet.  The flags along the porch are US flags at different times from 1777 to the current flag of today.

U.S. Grant House

On our way to deliver the Weavers back to their motorhome we made one more little detour.  This time we drove through the Evergreen High School field for a view of Mt. St. Helens.  This is where we watched the volcano erupt 32 years ago.  The view at this time wasn’t spectacular as a few clouds covered the top of the mountain.  Oh well, another day and there will be another view.

It was a busy day.  By the time we got back to our motorhome we were zonked and I'm sure the Weavers were too.  The next day we tackled downtown Portland,  the Rose Garden and so much more.

‘Tis life on the road.