We spent the day exploring the scenic Columbia Gorge with my two sisters today. Sister Holly drove over from Newman Lake in Eastern Wasington. Sister Cher joined us from Scappoose. Gary, Judy, Cher and Holly visited several of the spectacular water falls in the gorge and we hiked to the vista points on most of them. Continue reading The Columbia Gorge:
Category Archives: Travels
Power to the Humans:
My Humans, Gary and Judy, took me to the Human Power Challenge, 2006 this week. Imagine my surprise when they opened the doors of my trailer and there were recumbent bicycles just everywhere. There were Tour Easys, Gold Rushes and Bacchettas. There were home built bicycles and streamliners. Everyone was just romping around, splashing in the rain puddles and having a glorious time. Other humans came by and snapped my picture and I held very still and made sure my paint gleamed its finest. Continue reading Power to the Humans:
Coming Home:
This is something different. We are home, but we don’t have a house to come back to. We are always home, because home is Arcturus, and Arcturus is an Alpine motor home. By a different thought, however, home is where all of your best friends are. This is where we are this week. We have been visiting with the friends of our church, the friends that we worked with and friends that have been neighbors over the years. Continue reading Coming Home:
Together With Friends:
There is one wonderful side effect of publishing this blog. The friends that we have made along the way often times want to get on our mailing list. They follow our travels and when we find ourselves in the same area together we can rendezvous. Such is the case of friends that we made in Gettysburg last fall, Fran and Marilyn Sudbeck. We kept comparing our routes and discovered that we could get together in Newport today. Continue reading Together With Friends:
Home to Oregon:
Yes it is wonderful returning to your home state after traveling around Canada and the USA for nearly a year. Now we are not back in Scappoose, but we are slowly working our way up the Oregon coast. Continue reading Home to Oregon: