The girls were down for the weekend, so we took turns going for rides…  well, they took turns…  I always get to go!!!  KD and I went to Cave Junction for DQ and back…  and LE and I went to Galice for ice cream along the river…  A good time was had by all.

So, a friend and I headed up to Crater Lake on our bikes and made a couple of stops along the way…  here are some pictures:

White water rafting on the Wild and Scenic section of the Rogue River with Marc and Rogue Wilderness on a 4 day camp / lodge float was a blast.  Stop back for movies from the trip soon. Scroll down past the pictures to the map and give it a few minutes…  it maps where the…

So Marc came out to Southern Oregon from Iowa to see what there is to see…  We headed over to the coast to see the Redwoods and the Pacific, as well as to get out of the 105 degree temperatures in the Rogue Valley and Grants Pass, OR.  Here’s some of the things we saw!!…

So, as many of you should know, I moved from Iowa to Oregon last August to be closer to my girls.  This was an adventure, as I knew it would be.  I bought a 1996 Dodge 2500 (3/4 ton) 4×4 pickup with a topper from a friend.  It had been a work truck (snow plowing…

“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our…

Awesome evening in the Upper Peninsula …

This is one of the slowest sailboat race starts I’ve ever seen … no wind! !