So Grant told me this blogging thing was easy. So far, so good, except this is the second time i've written that exact same line because I just lost my last post somewhere in the cyberspace around my KOA Kamping Kabin (did you notice all the "K"'s instead of "C"'s? clever) when my konnection terminated (my own cleverosity just came out). Anyways, this is my second post, but I haven't figured out how to invite anybody to view this thing. That's my job after this post. So for now, its just me. Does that make it a "monoblog"? (hey, did I just coin a term? -like monologue)? We are currently in Sacremento. Man, it takes a while to drive here, doesn't it? Thought I'd jot down a few things I've learned on this trip so far. 1)Man, do the Americans ever use a lot of concrete.
2)There's a lot of people in this world who can afford million dollar motorhomes and then park them on gravel KOA parking lots.
3)Pine trees are healthy in the US.
4)Don't sleep at Cascade Locks KOA if you don't like train whistles going all night.
I've probably learned other things, but those are the ones that come to mind most readily. We stayed last night in Cascade locks in Oregon. Kind of a neat historical area but we did not have time to look around much. Apparently, this was where the early pioneers of Oregon had to decide whether they would risk the rapids on the Columbia River or take a longer toll route with its own perils. There was a huge waterfall we could see from the road (starts with an M, ends with?) The Bonneville dam looked like an interesting place as well, but we had to keep going. Anyways, I'll post a couple pictures below. Hopefully, I can update this a few more times on the trip.
Signing off.
Jeremy, Catherine, Joshua, Samuel, Sarah
2 comments:
Multnomah Falls - good hike btw.
And I take it the concrete wasn't your favorite, it is noisier than asphalt, but it lasts MUCH longer. Granted, you wouldn't know it when you see all the construction on the I-5. Ken and I noticed THAT when we were down in 2004.
Good thing you stayed near the train whistle. Where we stayed our second night on our "to Ojai trip" was on the SW corner of WA state - and Ken was EATEN alive by mosquitoes. In ONE slap I killed 5 of the bloody creatures. I apparently don't have their favorite flavored blood. Ken is sweeter than me. I suppose I'm slightly bitter.
I realize now that I'm very out of touch with you all. When did you decide to make the California trek? And WHY?
We need another GNO ASAP - so will Catherine be ready on August 26th?
Hey Jen,
Its not that I mind concrete so much, I just can't fathom how much there is of it. I think my reaction to the States is the opposite of Mickey Mouse, or whoever in Disney said "its a small world after all". This world is huge! Oregon/Washington was quite neat. When we went to your place, we did it at night. I had no idea what a complete difference there was between central washington and oregon and eastern washington and oregon. I really liked the columbia river area, especially the western half and I would like to go back.
We decided to come to california about a month ago when beate and oli invited us down to stay with them in san fran. so we decided to make a trip of it and go to san diego. I think if i ever come back ,though, i'll fly. its such a long drive.
i do love san diego, though. its so clear here and there is so much to do. we're only going to hit the big tourist highlights with the kids including sea world, san diego zoo, and wild animal park. hopefully we'll get to a beach too. one could easily spend a month here, though. maybe we'll fly back someday.
thanks for checking in. i'll post some more pics of the zoo tour tonight.
i'm not sure if cath will be back for the 26th or not. we might come back on the 27th.
jer
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