Friends and Family

It's been very peaceful lately. Becky and I have been exploring the area where we'd like to settle and have been finding quite a few friends as we go along. There's quite a variety of people in the area (diversity is good).

My mom stopped in for a quick visit on her way to pick up my dad in central Oregon. She brought some gifts for us and spent a little while hanging out with us in the RV. It will be nice to be closer to some of my family again. I really missed the camping and canoing trips here on the West Coast. There's just no place else that I feel so at home with. Now that we've done quite a bit of traveling I think it's safe to say that we'll stay close to the West Coast as we look for a place to build a home base.

We had a great visit wit Bob, Arlene and Jocelyn who we met and became friends with back in Minnesota. We managed to rendezvous here in Oregon nearly 2000 miles from where we last had dinner together. They were spending a week or two in Oregon and visiting with family when we arrived and they made a special day trip down to our area just to visit with us.

We had a dinner/birthday celebration at the local Mexican restaurant. Erika turned 11 years old yesterday so we made sure that she had her moment to shine. I guess it's a tradition there to shove whipping cream up your nose (we all laughed out loud). Bob treated us to some (somewhat authentic) Mexican dance moves and many margarita's were sacrificed to the birthday gods.