Yet Another Road Trip....

Left Friday to head here... well, look closely, it's Rogue River, just East of Grants Past, and West of Medford.... Oh, OREGON, and that's the california border in yellow.... Had to come pick up Pete's trailer.

The trip left late, so i didn't see much, but the few hours i did see, after driving half way through Washington, becuae i missed my exit, were beautiful....

If you look closely at the picture below, on the ridgeline, there are rows of Windmills.... beautiful to see up close...
One of the many bridges over the Columbia River, down in the Gorge....
Climbing, Headed South.... into the clouds
OVER the cloud line, lookin back....






Up near Crater Lake, This is supposed to be a 45 minute drive, it took us several hours. There was so much snow fall this was the best trip I could get of the mass amounts of snow on the Pines. A sight, when you're all alone on the mountain, that is completely unimaginable. just moments before, we stopped for clear star studded skys.
Rogue River, I didn't get many picutres, it's beautiful here, but THIS picture below, was taken in the 'bad' part of town, can you imagine THIS being the view from the bad part of town?

Thanksgiving 2006

These pics are very much out of order, sorry folks..

Here's Adrienne lighting Joseph's Centerpiece that he made...... (Daniel and Joseph were at their dad's for Thanksgiving)

Lighting Josephs' Centerpiece
Lighting Mom's Centerpiece...

(she was pretty worn out at this point.....LOL)

And there's Mom!!!
Altighty, did i mention that I have NEVER carved a Turkey?

But I was offered the job, and refused to turn it down...

On the phone with Dad telling him that i was Carving.....

Here's Adrienne with the turkey!!!

just as the snow started to fall outside.....
Holly all dressed up for the snow!!!
Sully dressed up doing tricks

My two favorite things.... :-)

Must be elk season... we had to get off the highway, and let this guy pass so we could take a second look, mom was fascinated....

Holy Mary, Mother of Cell Phone Towers?

Great rock formations

FINALLY... FINALLY.... FINALLY...

BACK IN NEWPORT...

A BEAUTIFUL SUNSET IN TOWN....

Livingston Montana

this turned out to be the best place on our journey, right off the highway

The view accross the street.....
The View out the Back Window....

yes, they really did have stalls for horses, when the sign said

"Horses Welcome"

Having a lot of trouble with my Blogger.... so these pics are all backwards.... and i keep loosing connection. so.. my appologies. i had to get these up, to show off my thanksgiving.

If you look closely, there is a great wooden fence here, all through Nebraska, Montana, and Wyoming you will find these near the freeways to prevent snow drifts over the road.

Packed up and ready to go, My friend Pete, me, mom's dog holly, and of course mom.

Pete and I lookin for his dog Sully, and 'Ralph" my other airstream, headed towards Newport.

A really big Coyote statue in the middle of nowhere....

Mom was upset that we didn't stop here, she begged and begged...

The Shotgun Geniez !!!

St.Louis and back again.

Home and Back…. Well, getting there…..

I headed back to St. Louis for a couple of weeks, which turned into more than four weeks. Stuck in the midst of City drama and more than I ever really wanted to have to deal with. But it was good to see my ol’ friends, and meet some new ones.

So, where am I now? Nebraska. Two hours or so from the Wyoming border, sitting at a starbucks that doesn’t have wireless internet… go figure… it’s a new store, and that didn’t seem to be a priority for them.

My friend Pete drove to St.Louis from Sacramento, California, with his truck to pull ‘Ralph’, my second Airstream that’s been sitting in St. Louis for years, after a disasterous rehab job. Long story that I don’t want to rehash… J We packed it full of most of the stuff I have in storage and pullin it all back Home to Newport. With…. Mom too.

Mom wanted to come to Newport to enjoy the holidays with snow. So, she has her car too, our own lil’ caravan.

Off to a mess of a start…. Sleeping late, getting a slower start, pulling over three and a half miles from home because the latch on the airstream broke, and the door was bending open against the wind. Soooo… Dad met up with us, we rigged the darn thing shut, while mom and Pete had lunch.

Time to hit the road again!!! WOOHOO…. Newport, HERE WE COME!!!!>..

Oh, wait…. Mom locked the keys in the car. Back to the house to get dad’s set of keys.

After an exhausting start, we stopped for the night, north of Kansas City, in St.Joseph,… yes, that’s right, we didn’t even make it out of Missouri on the first day.

So, here we are, some 600 miles, give or take a few, in Nebraska. Walkin down here, in the midst of hunters everywhere, occupying most of the rooms in this town, I walked over a bridge of a small stream, and there, next to it, a huge deer, with one heck of a rack on it…. After a bit, he walked off, and as I turned to leave, two beavers swam up to the sand bar. I stood there in the cold for what must have been a half hour watching animals at play in nature….. and wondered if that poor deer would make it through another day.

So, that’s about it, hopefully I’ll find internet so I can post this from ‘word’ to the blog, and include a few pictures. So, stay tuned for more adventures!!!

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first time i've had internet connection, here in Livingston Montana..... will have to post pictures after we arrive in Newport tonight.