Hey everyone, we’re back in Oregon! We’re staying with my younger sister, Lauryn, and her family in their new/old home. It was built by a doctor in the early 1900s, and amazingly a bunch of his stuff is still here – his doctor bag, his license, his class picture, etc. The house itself is very beautiful and has lots of character. Continue reading
I came across something so funny this afternoon I had to share it… Continue reading
This morning we tried Crosspoint Community Church which is only a few blocks away from us. It meets on the bottom floor of a dance studio so it already doesn’t look much like a church, but the people also dressed very casually. There are probably about twenty or thirty people in the congregation. The band isn’t the best, but at least they did a mix of modern choruses and hymns with a beat. The sermon was adequate. It was no Saratoga Federated, but then again, it wasn’t like the churches I tried in Gore. The people were friendly and I could settle there for a month and a half. Continue reading
This morning we decided to find out for sure where Amazon is and time how long it takes us to get there. It takes about forty minutes, and since we’re supposed to be to work by 7:00, we’ll need to get up at 5:00 on work days. Oof! The trip to and from work will be pretty, though, winding through the mountains with views of the Truckee River. We don’t anticipate any traffic jams on that stretch of highway either. Continue reading
We had a shorter drive today; about three hours. In that time I finished reading the book we’ve been working on this whole trip. Interestingly I was right all along about who the killer was. I’d make a good investigator! Mark and I talked about it, and that’s probably what makes me such a good editor. I make connections and catch incongruities. I guess it would be safer to stick with editing! Continue reading
When we left Salt Lake City this morning, we soon got out onto the Salt Flats. They are flat and salty. It looks like you could walk off the side of the road and fill up your salt shaker. 🙂 Continue reading
This morning we set the alarm and got up early for a day of touring. The LDS church provides a free shuttle that stops at the airport and at our KOA and picks people up to take them to Temple Square for however long they want. We went into the KOA office a little before 9:00 and asked them to call the shuttle, and in less than ten minutes it was here. The driver was a really nice elderly man who was a little hard of hearing. Continue reading
We woke up this morning to beautiful skies, although there was a light dusting of snow on the picnic table near our site. It was cold this morning, but it was nowhere near as cold as yesterday. Continue reading
This morning I had a suspicion that it was going to be cold today, so I put long johns on under my clothes. When we opened the blinds, my suspicions were confirmed when we saw a light dusting of snow on the picnic tables and the leaves on the ground. The ground itself was warm enough that the snow hadn’t stuck. Continue reading
We got an earlier start on our travels today – around 10:00 instead of sometime after noon – and had a relatively uneventful trip. Continue reading