Travelogue

Susan’s parents started our travels by offering to host the girls at Disney World for a week. They swam (those lessons pay off) and ate, rode rides and met Pooh.

We dropped them off and then set out to discover Florida. The teenager in me rented a convertible. The rust in me got us both sunburned a day later. We visited friends, swam in springs, bought art, collected shells, kayaked swamps and breathed smoke filled air in a burning everglades. Key Largo found us scuba diving and finally even we spent a day at Disney World.

I flew on to Palm Desert for a medical meeting but found a few moments to experience the Mohave desert as well. One interesting experience among many befell me there.

I took up bike commuting to the university several days a week and eventually talked my neighbor Chuck into trying it as well. He joined me for a Bike the Bridges tour with the girls. Early in the summer, I found a bike shop in the university town of Eugene, Oregon and came home with a tandem trail-a-bike. The three of us on the bike turned out to be quite an attraction during the tour across the Wilamette River bridges.

A cousin's 4th of July marriage in Seattle brought family out from the east coast. We reveled in the firworks, the food and the traffic. The long road home took us up to Mount Rainer as the roads opened from a deep snowy winter.

Susan has a meeting in Washington, DC in September and we make it a week long trip to visit friends and family. Morgan and Sydney find the warmth of the sand and ocean in Delaware to be beyond compare, though Florida's temperatures were pretty good in the spring. Hurricaine Floyd shows us what wind is really like. The girls try out driving a John Deere tractor and feeding horses.

Many took vacations here with us including Julia, Susan's friend from school days as well as my sister Cheryl and family. With Guests we try to hit all the attractions which include the ocean, Hood River, Mt. Hood, Mt. St. Helens, Wilamette Valley Vineyards and on and on. We try the best we can not to let guests suffer from boredom.