Loaded up and Headed South

Loaded up and Headed South

Our time in Washington had come to an end.  We loaded up the poor little Sonata to the gills and left Shannon & Cam’s house in Spokane Valley.  Unfortunately, we had to head backwards over 300 miles to Western Washington for a rescheduled appointment rather than just heading south.  After our extended stay in St. Lucia due to hurricane Maria, our plans for our drive home were all discomboobilated.  We had appointments that had to be rescheduled, and hotel reservations that had to be cancelled.  We had planned to drive south to California and spend some time at Yosemite National Park.  Then to Death Valley National Park, over to Las Vegas, then to Bryce Canyon, Moab, and Mesa Verde.  Early Fall is high season for Moab, and we didn’t want to lose our reservations there, so we just cut out the first week of our trip, and drove fast to get back on schedule. Read more

Buttes and Mountains

One adventure that we both had been looking forward to was to visit Kenny’s cousin Carla and her husband Joe, at their vacation home at Black Butte Ranch, in Sisters Oregon.  Add another state to our story!  They’ve had their place there since 2010, but for one reason or another, we’ve never been there.  So we set a date several months ago, and it was finally time!

The Columbia River is the state boundary between Washington and Oregon.  I couldn’t get a shot of the river through all the bridge rails and cars…. but I did get the Welcome to Oregon sign… well, maybe we weren’t really welcome? – just Entering.

AAAAAGHHH!  Portland traffic is as bad as Seattle!  They have many multi-layer bridges that cross various rivers, and Read more