November friends

Friends made the cloudy days brighter and the cold days warmer.

Tourists in southern Oregon

Jack London’s Room is complete with Jack London’s chamber pot.

Oregon’s Wildlife Safari

Wildlife Safari is the only drive-through animal park in the state.

Ashland Shakespeare

Margaret and I met up for a vacation a little closer to home than our two most recent trips to Chile and to Myanmar. This time, we went to southern Oregon! She drove north 5 1/2 hours from Santa Rosa and I drove south 5 1/2 hours from Rainier. We met at a hotel in […]

Indians in the Gorge

The people that choose outlet malls over this are insane. Truly. Off their rockers.

Smoke over the Columbia

Smoke in the air reminds me that the threat is close to me as well.

Mini RT Series – five

I hope my friend now feels more keenly his place on this particular spot of the Pacific Northwest.

Mini RT Series – four

I spent time reminiscing.

Mini RT Series – three

Pop quiz: what is Oregon’s state fossil? Metasequoia, of course.

Mini RT series – two

Day two we headed east and then dropped south from the Columbia River Gorge to explore the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument.