One Year on the Road

We were so close to home, but it was a week before we could get our house. Our friends, Kathy and Robin, offered up their driveway to Bessie but they had weekend guests till Monday. So from Newport we went…

Newport is less than two hours from Eugene, and we invited our friend Kathleen and her granddaughter, Madison, to come join us for the weekend. Kathleen has been our Eugene neighbor for 26 years, and our very good friend. We…

After Seaside, we drove further down the coast to the next Thousand Trails campground in Pacific City. We’d planned to stay three nights, but when we got there we discovered that we didn’t get any cell service at all. Also,…

We left triple-digit heat in Portland on Sunday and drove west to Seaside, where the beaches were socked in with fog, the wind was strong, and temps were in the 50s. I had a bad cold and the sudden chill…

I think about that kiss. The one Omar Mateen witnessed with his son at Orlando Gay Pride. The one he felt the need to avenge with blood. And I’m immobilized by emotion. I think about those nameless men. Joyful and…

After more than a year away, we crossed the border into Oregon last week and met our oldest Eugene friends at Viento State Park campground on the Columbia River Gorge. We hadn’t seen Kathy and Robin since we’d left, but…

I posted this essay on my Facebook page yesterday and have gotten such a positive response that I’ve decided to post it here as well, even though it stretches the boundaries of a usual travel blog. We saw Bernie Sanders…