#11 July 26
We spent our week at Mt Hood Village & saw a lot of wet weather but we got out & about to see somethings.
We drove into Sandy, OR & Barbara Found a yarn shop & a quilt shop to browse in & get some ideas for new projects.
We drove to Government Camp, OR & went through the Museum & Cultural Center. We found out about the "Barlow Road" which was an important part of the Oregon Trail. There is no cost for the museum.
We also went to Rhododendron, OR to see a display of a quilt collection. Some of the quilts had actually been brought to Oregon over the Oregon Trail. The quilts were made from the mid 1800's to the 1940's. While we were at the quilt show they were having music provided by 2 men playing native american flutes & another man playing the guitar. I talked to Tony & Randy, the flute players, & got some information on flute circles & flute festivals. We may be able to go to some of these on our walkabout.
On our way from Mt Hood Village to Bend/ Sunriver we stopped at the Warm Springs Museum & Cultural Center in Warm Springs, OR. The tribes have a very nice museum that is well worth the time & price to see.
We came on to Bend/Sunriver TTN & found a very nice spot for our 3 week stay. Now we are playing pickleball & yesterday we went to the pool to try water aerobics for the first time. Quite a workout.
The weather here has been very nice. Mostly sunny with afternoon clouds, temps in the 70's most days & 40's at night.
Wayne & Barbara have "Gone Walkabout"
#10 July 13, 2011
Let me tell you about my new friend, Richard. When we were in Grants Pass last month we purchased a TomTom GPS at Radio Shack. If you are familiar with GPS units you know that you have a list of voices to give you instructions as you travel. I have selected Richard as the voice that gives me those instructions.
We left Seaside on July 12 & Richard gave me directions to get on Hwy 26 to Portland. We have been over this portion of Hwy 26 before so I was comfortable with the directions given.
Our destination was Mt. Hood Village, an Encore Resort near Welches, OR, which is on Hwy 26 east of Portland. Into Portland & out the east side was new to me so Richard was my navigator. As we got into Portland freeway traffic Richard would tell me "take the next exit right & stay in the right lane" or "take the next exit right & bear to the left". This was working fine & Barbara was following closely in the Ford Focus (she says she feels like a remora fish following a shark).
Anyway, we are exiting right staying right & exiting right bearing left & I realize that none of the Hwy signs say anything about Hwy 26. I figure Richard knows what he is doing & call Barbara on the walkie-talkie to tell her we are in Richard's hands because I am totally lost. She says she has been lost for quite awhile so she will follow.
Long story short, Richard got us off the freeway & connected to Hwy 26 in Gresham & brought us right to the gate of Mt. Hood Village Resort.
We like having Richard along on our Walkabout as navigator. So our merry band includes Barbara, Wayne Benji & Richard.
Let me tell you about my new friend, Richard. When we were in Grants Pass last month we purchased a TomTom GPS at Radio Shack. If you are familiar with GPS units you know that you have a list of voices to give you instructions as you travel. I have selected Richard as the voice that gives me those instructions.
We left Seaside on July 12 & Richard gave me directions to get on Hwy 26 to Portland. We have been over this portion of Hwy 26 before so I was comfortable with the directions given.
Our destination was Mt. Hood Village, an Encore Resort near Welches, OR, which is on Hwy 26 east of Portland. Into Portland & out the east side was new to me so Richard was my navigator. As we got into Portland freeway traffic Richard would tell me "take the next exit right & stay in the right lane" or "take the next exit right & bear to the left". This was working fine & Barbara was following closely in the Ford Focus (she says she feels like a remora fish following a shark).
Anyway, we are exiting right staying right & exiting right bearing left & I realize that none of the Hwy signs say anything about Hwy 26. I figure Richard knows what he is doing & call Barbara on the walkie-talkie to tell her we are in Richard's hands because I am totally lost. She says she has been lost for quite awhile so she will follow.
Long story short, Richard got us off the freeway & connected to Hwy 26 in Gresham & brought us right to the gate of Mt. Hood Village Resort.
We like having Richard along on our Walkabout as navigator. So our merry band includes Barbara, Wayne Benji & Richard.
We left Pacific City TTN on June 28 & had a nice drive to the Tillamook Cheese Factory. Had to stop & make sure the cheese was being processed & had lunch.
We got into the Seaside TTN mid-afternoon & found a great spot near the pool & pickleball courts. We were pleasantly surprised to find 4 newly surfaced pickleball courts. They are really first class. We helped put up the nets & the next day were among the first to play on the new courts. I think that as soon as the pickleball playing members find out about these new courts they will be spending more time at this preserve.
Kathy & Dennis got here on Saturday July 2 & we have had a lot of fun doing some site seeing with them. On July 4 we went to Fort Clatsop & enjoyed a day of looking through the visitor center museum, hearing the informative talk about the Corps of Discovery's time there in December 1805 through March 1806, & taking the nature walk along the Nethul River with Ranger Russ.
In the evening, we went down to the beach to see the Seaside Fireworks. There were many people on the beach with wood fires & their own personal fireworks. The personal fireworks were very impressive with loud booms & spectacular light displays in the sky. The city of Seaside had a very good fireworks display, we were all favorably impressed with the quality & the quantity of pyrotechnics.
Today we went to Astoria to go through the Columbia Maritime Museum & go up the hill to the Astoria Column. Both well worth the time.
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