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We went on a spontaneous "weekend" trip, in early Sept. to Seattle. That turned out to be 6 days and the whole WA coastline, plus some islands in the Puget Sound. Gorgeous! We of course only have 35mm of that trip since we didn't think ahead to charge the digital, so no pix to share of that trip yet.
Then we went to the OR coast aquarium in Newport for M's 4th, in late Sept. Of course stopped at every point on the coast between here and there and back again, camping each night. Totally fell in love with the Central coast. Cape Meares and Cape Kiwanda seem to have left the most impressions on us. Some really great communities down there, but just as removed from civilization.
We most recently went to CA to visit friends and for K to do some work - Redding (10 days), Redwoods camping, long boring Central CA drive to San Diego (14 days) then off to AZ to see parents, then Zion Nat. Park in UT, then long boring drive through ID and Eastern OR. All in all this trip was 3800 mi. We did get the luck of purchasing a new family vehicle for the long haul, and it was a wonderful thing for us. We had long out grown our small Subaru. We loved seeing dear our friends and catching up was long over due. We had some fun in the Redwoods, and Zion and AZ on the way. Unfortunately, we missed our animals terribly and 27 days was way too long to be away from home, for all of us. I managed to homeschool the children and keep up with my school work too, somehow. Diligence and fortitude, right ;-)
MONTEZUMA'S CASTLE [somewhere in AZ]
I will post more on this trip later. We have some neat pix. Just wanted to catch all y'all up on what's up with me and family.
