Jan 21, 2013 - Headed South!

All right, I got to the Peace Arch border crossing about 10:30 this morning and after I convinced a very nice guard that I wasn't going to entrench myself in Nirvana (aka the U.S.A.) for the rest of my life, I headed down Interstate 5 which will take me to L.A. eventually. Talk about good planning, I didn't know that today was Martin Luther King day in the U.S. and a national holiday! That meant that the traffic down the Seattle - Tacoma corridor was just busy instead of crazy busy! (They didn't even have the express lanes open.) So it was...

Sep 10, 2012 - On The Road Again

We had a nice breakfast of muffins that Ruthie made with the freshly picked blackberries gathered yesterday. After breakfast we ‘pulled up stakes’ and headed to Astoria, Oregon stopping along the way at a privately owned fruit stand. The lady reminded me of one of the elementary school teachers I admired in Little Chute. She talked me into one of the varieties of peaches that are the last available in the region. We talked about corn and the variety she sold but I resisted her best sales pitch because I did not know when the next...

Jan 17, 2012 - just didnt know??

Plan a goto ????? ok, yesterday i never really describe our scenic route, it was a white knuckles. i had to drive down the center line and if i stayed over as far as i could, there might be room for a smart car to scrap against the cliff wall. Seriously similiar to the ROAD TO HANA. So, this morning we woke up to another snow storm with 3" of new snow and piling up. huh, do we stay or go? huh, we are up a roller coaster hill and the snow plowing, i have been told is hit and miss. took some pictures, not posted. Went to the gas station,...

Sep 23, 2011 - Our first stop in Wilsonville, OR

On Saturday morning, September 17th, we departed our home RV park, Issaquah Village RV, for the inaugural leg in our new life on the road. Several of our "peeps" (our dear friends in our park community) were on hand to see us off and a neighboring bus blew his air horn to send us off on our journey. We left with a mix of excitement for the road ahead and sadness at leaving the many wonderful friends that we have made in our 30 years living in Washington. We drove through rain for most of the 200+ mile trip to the Pheasant Ridge RV Park in...

Sep 15, 2010 - Wilsonville, OR

Campground: Camping World parking lot Time to pack it up and head on out. So sad saying goodbye to everyone, especially Murray and Shelle and so hard to believe the trip is almost over. The drive down to the Columbia River and then along the river is very pretty. We crossed into Oregon at Maryhill then started down I-84. At points we could see Mount Hood. The weather was lovely. We knew we were really on the way home when we got to I-5 and headed south. The night was spent dry camping in Portland’s Camping World parking lot so that in the...

Jul 28, 2010 - Portland/Wilsonville, OR

Portland was put on the schedule because John wanted to go to McMinnville to see the Spruce Goose and a plane like one that he had piloted. We found a nice RV park in Wilsonville, Oregon, just south of Portland. Gertrude felt like she was almost home, since she lives near Wilsonville, North Carolina. We enjoyed the many huge, hanging baskets of petunias at the RV park and around the town of Wilsonville. Upon departure from Wilsonville, we traveled southwest to McMinnville where the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum is located. Howard...

Jul 25, 2010 - Portland Fun!

It has been a full couple of weeks since we got back from Hemet. We have spent the weekdays golfing and playing pickleball and then the weekends with Steve and Carree. Last weekend, Steve flew in from Taiwan about 3 in the afternoon and we hung out with a bottle of beer (or 2 or 3 or??) and had a great dinner. Sunday we enjoyed the great temps here and spent the day by walking, shopping and capping it off with Big Brother. It was a very low key and relaxing couple of days. The weekdays found us golfing at Charbonneau Golf Course in Aurora...

Sep 22, 2009 - Wilsonville, OR

We spent 5 days in Wilsonville, a southern suburb of Portland. Our primary goal was to recheck a nice housing area we had previously seen. While there, Duane came down with a cold so we canceled our plans to spend time in Portland. We were able to check out some open houses and found the area interesting because it would enable us to live in a community that would be very easy to be away from for extended periods of time. Also, we were impressed with the public transportation available in the community. Within Wilsonville, there is a...

Jul 3, 2008 - Portland, OR

Portland is somewhere we would like to come back too. There is lots to do and see. There is lots we are going to miss. 4th of July, we visited a couple of wineries in the Williamette Valley area. Then we went to a true to life rodeo. It was great since we have never been to one. I guess some of the cowboys are pretty famous and competing for the final rodeo in Vegas. They were saying that the gas prices were hurting cowboys because they couldn't afford to travel the circuit with their horses and campers. So they are sharing horses and...

Nov 4, 2007 - Portland to Southern California

We left Portland (actually Wilsonville) on Nov 4th and headed for the deserts of Southern California... it just took us several weeks to get there. We atayed at Coosbane (Coos Bay to non-muppets) for a few nights and enjoyed the ocean beaches there and the fresh seafood. Then we went south to Redwood Trails RV Resort (a few miles south of Orick, CA. There we stayed and played for two weeks.

Sep 9, 2007 - Potpourri

Potpourri, that's a mixture of a bunch of different stuff, and that's what this is today. We're in Wilsonville at the Pheasant Ridge RV Park, where we have stayed several times the past three years as we've come to the area for medical checkups. This park has a small swimming pool that is seldom used, so we can keep up with the aquatic exercise regime daughter Kathie started us on. This pool is tiny compared with the one in Carson City, but we aren't going for distance anyway. Here at Pheasant Ridge we caught up with some friends we met...

May 27, 2007 - The May Maelstrom

We've been in Wilsonville, Oregon, for nearly a month following our six-week adventure getting here. It usually takes us only two weeks, but this time we took the scenic route, largely along the Pacific Coast. This is our regular twice-a-year visit to the Portland area for medical checkups, RV services, and whatever else comes up. In the area of "whatever else comes up," Suzy was flipping through our old family cookbook, the one we compiled nearly twenty years ago using recipes given us by family members and friends. Suzy was remembering a...