Florence, Oregon is a quiet little town on the Pacific Coast Highway. My parents lived in several places in Oregon including Florence after they retired and quit the jewelry show circuit business. [We are a gypsy family at heart.] The beaches along the way after Florence were gorgeous. We camped for the night in the…
We spent a whole lot of time in Olympia getting our Spanish visa ducks in a row. It might work… or might not, but we’ve done what we can for now. Hours later, we arrived in Corvallis, the sweet little town where my parents met and married 69 years ago. Dad was a very young…
Okay… a little snag – a little, tiny one. Bright and early the morning of July 4, I celebrated by dropping my laptop directly on middle toe of my right foot, breaking it in a couple places and making a deep cut in the skin. Photos are available, but I don’t recommend them without a…
It’s amazing how much has to change when you leave an address, a city, work, friends, and family. Steve and I have spent most of today going from place to place to get our lives disengaged so that we can travel for a few months to a year. Yesterday, we had a gathering of us…
Our journey has begun. With the help of two of our children (one is an honorary child and Meghan’s boyfriend), we crammed almost ever last piece of our belongings into a small storage unit in Tacoma. Aram and Nick were amazing and amazed that it all fit, sort of. We passed the cleaning inspection on…
Point Defiance Rose Garden – Tacoma, Washington (maintained by the Tacoma Rose Society) The Point Defiance Rose Garden is very large and very lush. The roses are planted in concentric circles around a lovely pergola. Of course, the whole garden is also surrounded by fencing to keep the deer from eating it all up. Besides…
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