I have found Weetbix, or its overseas
version, Weetabix at Trader Joe’s, and they have other wonderful foods there as
well. Thanks Kayal.
I forgot to tell you in the last bog that I
got into the car to drive somewhere and discovered the steering wheel and
pedals were missing. Then I saw them on
the other side…bugger. I got out walked
round the other side hoping nobody else was watching. This was repeated a few days later.
This week we went to Portland for a few days
and stayed with a wonderful couple who are the parents of one of our “adopted
Tanzanian Children” from St Jude’s. They
were great hosts and suggested we go to their holiday home further South in Oregon
at Sunriver. This involved a drive past
Mt Hood where I was nearly tempted to have a ski, but I decided against it as
the snow would have been hard and wet.
After this it was on past another valley, flats and more mountains with
the main one being Mt Bachelor, which I have been informed is a good ski
resort. Maybe we will have to come back
here. And so he continues to plot his return!!
The holiday home was a great retreat and we
did a few day trips. The first day it
was raining with low clouds so we didn’t see anything in the distance (or close
up for that matter). We went up to
Paulina Peak at 7,984ft (2,433mtrs), which is higher that Australia’s highest
mountain, Mt Kosciuszko at 2,228mtrs. We
also saw some lava fields and drove up a lava hill (Lava Butte). It was in Lava Land
park area I spotted my first Chipmunk, and it was all downhill from there. I kept stopping to take photos of their cute
little faces. Also found some Prairie
Dogs and they are lovely little things that should never come to Australia,
even if they are cute, because they dig borrows! Not good!
The next day was sunny so we got to see the
high mountains, mainly Mt Bachelor, and guess what…more skiers. He was in a world of
hurt! Just past Mt Bachelor, we
went for a lake walk before ending up at a beer brewing place in Bend where we
tasted nine different beers and bought the two that tasted the best. You can only taste at the brewery so they
pour the beer you want in a 32oz (1ltr) can and seal it with a top (including
ringpull). We drank them both later that
day. Had salmon
for dinner, life is good.
The following day began with the temperature
below 4C, but at least it was sunny and actually got up to 27C. We decided to head off on our next part of our
West Coast road trip after farewelling our wonderful new friends…be very
careful, we might return as this area is really nice…and appears to have some
great skiing as well.
This day involved another visit to Paulina
Peak, this time with clear skies and the views were amazing, then on to Crater
Lake, again amazing views, and then a lovely drive to Florence. Yee haaaa, we have finally made the West
Coast.
I’m starting to think Pete will
need to get a job, when we get home, as his sentence formation is slipping
somewhat.
This last week has been
wonderful! We have had a wonderful time
with our new Oregon family and almost came home with their dog. Rio would have been a bit hard trying to
conceal as we left, beautiful puppy!
Well we are now in Florence Oregon
and I wonder what this holds for us.
Big hugs Lovelies
Denise and Pete
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