The Beautiful Town Of Oakland, Oregon

We highly recommend visiting the little town of Oakland, Oregon the next time you are between Eugene and Roseburg, Oregon.

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first time I used a feature that allows me to send pictures from my mobile phone directly to our blog. The title will initially read "Multimedia Message" until I get to a real computer to edit the title. This has been a handy way for us to get pictures up the moment we are there.

On The Road Again . . .

Woke up this morning...decided it was time for another trip!


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Below are the towns we plan to hit:

1. Cottage Grove, Oregon
   


2. Oakland, Oregon


3. Roseburg, Oregon


4. Winston, Oregon (Wildlife Safari!)


5. Coos Bay, Oregon


6. Bandon, Oregon (HUGE petting zoo)


7. Brookings, Oregon


8. Cave Junction, Oregon


9. Medford, Oregon


10. Lakeview, Oregon


11. Burns, Oregon


12. John Day, Oregon


13. Prineville, Oregon


14. Paulina, Oregon

Which Is Better?

A true story that happened while we were in Boston:

I was on the 2nd floor of Macy's waiting for the elevator down because the escalator was broken. There was a long line of disgruntled females as the elevator seemed to be taking so long. all of a sudden, two teen-aged, Britney Spears wannabes showed up in their little mini skirts and over-done faces. They blurted out that they were NOT going to wait for the elevator and ran up to the emergency double doors. They paused and wondered out loud if they could go through, not seeing the giant red sign that said EMERGENCY EXIT ONLY. Quickly without using their brains they burst open the doors and all hell broke loose. They screamed (for attention)and Macy's store employees began running around shouting. The two girls stood there looking very stupid. I approached and asked them a question: "Hey girls, is it better to be SMART or CUTE?" They stood there staring at me, tapping their heels nervously on the tile floor. "CUTE!" the one with bright red lip gloss said triumphantly. "WRONG!" I said to them. "It is better to be BOTH!"

Change Of Plans

We cut back a couple of days...here are pictures so far:


Well we ended up jumping out early on this one...there were many factors in this decision.

1. We average about 7 miles of walking a day (which we loved) and would be walking less if we were on a bus for long periods of time
2. The weather was getting a little scary in the South and Midwest (See Right)
   
3. We missed our dog.

I'm sure we'll get to the South some day soon. The next time we will probably drive ourselves around so we have more opportunity to linger in places and chase storms.

Watch It Grow

Below is a map of where we have been (both cities and countries.)* In the next couple of months watch it grow as we travel from here to there and everywhere. I could spend hours detailing every small town we have been to!

*This map represents places that we have been TOGETHER...all prior travels before we met will not be listed.

Summer Goals

Below are a handful of goals that we have for this summer...in no particular order

• Build Houses In Mexico
• Build Wells In Mexico (and beyond)
• Travel By Bus Throughout The US
• Go To The Cove Palisades
• Camp EVERYWHERE
• Travel from Victoria, BC to Banff, AB
• Hike the Oregon Portion of the Pacific Crest Trail
• (Or) Hike a Big Chunk of the Continental Divide Trail

Trip 1.0

(Planes, Trains, and Greyhound Buses)
We're less than a week a way from our trip: Here is our proposed route:


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We have only planned the first portion of this trip (Boston, NY, DC) and have left the Greyhound portion "Open Ended." I think it might be a good idea to see how we feel when we get done with DC before we commit ourselves to 1.5 weeks on a bus through tornado country . . .