We put in some serious time on the trike and logged some serious miles since my last post. We left Rapid City on the morning of June 17. We stopped to see Mt. Rushmore and got some pics of that. We didn't stay long as it was very dog un-friendly more »

Fort Pulaski was built on the Savannah River on Tybee Island in 1847. It was built of stone and brick with walls many feet thick and in times before the development of rifled canon would have been nearly impregnable. more »

After we left the Keys we came up to the Everglades and checked into a very nice campsite in the National Park. more »

Sorry about the lag time in getting any posts up. On the 17th we left the ticks at O'Lena and drove to Lake Louisa. more »

We road through Mobile and across Southeast Alabama into Florida and are now at Balboa Bayou near Niceville, Florida which is east of Pensacola. more »

We drove across the causeway again to finally see the French Quarter. more »

Due to the Easter weekend coming up all campsites in the state are full so we have decided to stay in our current camp until Sunday. Fortunately it was available. more »

I added 12 photos of houses around Galveston to the Galveston gallery. Of many spectacular homes the most amazing is the Bishop's Palace. Built between 1887 and 1893 by Galveston architect Nicholas J. Clayton for lawyer and politician Walter Gresham, in… more »

Galveston sunrise more »

We rode from Del Rio to Boerne (pronounced Burney) the day before yesterday through some of the best motorcycling roads I have ever been on. If this keeps up I will run out of superlatives. This is the famous hill country of Texas and it was good to be… more »

The weather yesterday finally turned decent. The night before though it rained during the night, rain that froze to the tent rain fly. Clear skies though and the sun felt good when we got up at 7:30. The first night we were in the park we heard snor… more »

Here are a couple of photos from the first few days on the road. more »

Another leisurely start today, leaving the hotel at 10:30. Plus only 120 miles. I got back on the route our maps said we should be on which turned out to be only 5 miles from last's night hotel. I should probably have just used the freeway because we… more »

I finally forced my way out of bed to get some sunrise pictures. I still need to work on them before posting but here's one taken facing west just a few miles up the road from "home". more »

I took off on a solo trip with the trike on the 21st and 22nd of this month to ride a 40 mile ride outside of Tucson. more »

I found this RV park online using one of my mapping software programs. They have a pretty good website. We are planning to move the motorhome down here the first of February. It sits at 4200 feet elevation so the summers don't hit the triple digit tem… more »

We left Yuma at about 11 am. Got home at 3:00. Brought the rain with us from Oregon! I was lucky to only get a few sprinkles while on the trike. A neighbor told us it has just finished raining for three hours when we pulled in. The drive wasn't too… more »

He's a little grumpy about wearing the Santa hat I'm afraid. But this is for Robert who is fearful the Grinch had gotten a hold of him for a meal.:> more »

A tip of the hat to Americablog for pointing out this photo essay at Time. From his college years. more »

We are planning to drive to Oregon this weekend and have been following the weather forecasts rather closely. Glad we weren't going up today. Caltrans and Oregon ODOT both have websites with roadcams so we can actually see live or close to live pictu… more »

We had a couple of rolls of old 35mm film taken in about 2003. Here's one from the rolls of Von and our first Harley, a Heritage softail. more »

So I talked to my brother last night and he had an interesting factoid. He lives in Springfield, Illinois and he told me he had visited the state capitol to kill some time recently. While there he went by the governor's public office and found that the… more »

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Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his chief of staff, John Harris, were arrested today by FBI agents for what U.S. Atty. Patrick Fitzgerald called a "staggering" level of corruption involving pay-to-play politics in Illinois' top office. More here. My brother,… more »

Saturday night we went to the local Festival of Lights parade. There were some 70 entries, all pretty home town floats but it was fun to watch. More photos at the gallery . This was about the most sophisticated of the floats. And of course we hav… more »

I've been going through all the photos we have taken this past year and will post some of my favorites here on the front page. This one was taken at a little place called Tortilla Flat. It is east of Phoenix about 50 miles or so. Greg Edited f… more »

I hope everyone had a great Turkey Day. Von and I had a quiet day at home watching a bunch of crummy football games (none were even close). We had a light meal of grilled chicken breasts, mashed potatos and steamed broccoli. Heh. I didn' miss the ann… more »

The drive across northern Nevada was pretty amazing. We climbed someThis was on the drive east from Winnemucca. Awesome viewl incredible mountains, 3 or 4 thousand feet in fewer tha five miles. It felt like looking out from an airplane when we looked… more »

As usual the learning curve for me on all this software is a steep one. I apologize for any weirdness you experience while I am figuring this stuff out. Greg more »

I did a 14 mile bike ride yesterday out in the desert around home. I thought I might be bored with these flatlands especially compared to the forested roads of Oregon but not so. I came upon this sign for Clyde City Limits. Weird cause there's nothing… more »

Thanks to the great support from my webhost I finally am upgraded to the newest stable version of this blog software. You shouldn't see much difference at first but there is a lot of functionality on the backend I get to play around with. More later,… more »

Back on the road again. At least on a bicycle. One side effect of knowing I have to drive the motorcycle some 1300 miles from Oregon to Arizona in the winter is that I realized I need to get in shape. So I finally rode the new touring bicycle on the r… more »

We've decided that we want to keep the motorcycle after all. For a couple of years Von has been spooked about riding with me but has said she would do so if we converted the bike to a trike. I had been pretty resistant to that idea and thought she migh… more »

We haven't written much about Casa Grande because, frankly, there isn't much to write about Casa Grande. Maybe that's why we have been enjoying it: we are in a personal time and place where we need to slow down and recover and a boring town is what is c… more »

She turned the double nickle today!!!! more »

We've been married twelve years today. I don't have any digital wedding photos, lost them all in a computer crash years ago. If any of the attendees that day happen to have any I would be indebted should you email copies to me. Since then I've since… more »

We dispersed camped for a full month here this summer. A great time as you can see from this picture of Von. Vons smiling after a trip to the rodeo You can see more pictures of this trip by clicking on this sentence. more »

About the prettiest place we have stayed was in the Gifford Pinchot NF outside of Carson Washington. We had driven to Stevenson to see my uncle who is suffering from Alzheimers. I'm afraid he didn't remember who I was. Bob was a major part of my early… more »

The White Salmon River the enters Columbia River just across from The Dalles. I ran it twice in the late 70's. At that time to put your boat in you paid $5 to a guy to run the boat out on a cable that he had strung across the river. He'd drop it down… more »

Bentley more »

We were camped in the Gifford Pinchot forest and went for a drive. We came upon these scenes. Click here for a link to the photo gallery album more »

Of my 58 years I have been an Oregon resident for 52 of them. I lived in California while I went to college and about two years in Washington when I got my first job in insurance. It was a difficult thing to do particularly at this time when I lose a ch… more »

So we continued through Wyoming to spend the night at Laramie, WY. I always thought the Laramie was a made up town name for all the old westerns that I watched on TV when I was young, but there really is a Laramie. I wasn't that impressed, remember, I… more »

Wow, I just drove 900 miles going 75mph on I80 through Nevada, Utah and into Wyoming. :crazy: I don't think I passed more than 3 cars the whole way. There isn't much traffic, just a lot of truckers. The cars that were on the highway passed me like I wa… more »

We are on the Nevada-Utah border a few miles from the Bonneville Salt Flats. This is a small casino town with a lot of trucker traffic for the low (er) cost fuel prices. Diesel has been going down daily sonce we left Klamath Falls the day before yester… more »

Well, that was interesting. We stayed at the Hilton in Eugene since it is the only union hotel in town as far as I know. Nice facility and we (SEIU 503) got a good price. Von volunteered as a page and boy did she have to work her butt off. There were… more »

Saturday we went to Moore Park in Klamath Falls to see a Civil War Reenactment. I had never been to one before and I really find it hard to get into anything that seems to glamorize one of the low points in US history. However, this was really entertai… more »

In the land of "used to be". I graduated from high school from Klamath Union High in 1968 and left a couple of days after the graduation ceremony. I did return for a few months in 1976 but really hadn't spent any time here since then. In a larger sen… more »

We have been camping in somewhat remote sites this past two months and have had limited or no internet or cell. I am amazed at the number of hits this site continued to receive even with such limited posting. I haven't had time to see more detail of th… more »

So we were sitting in camp the other evening when two women stopped their car and came into our spot asking if we had any band aids. One of them had fallen on the rocks at a nearby waterfall and skinned up her knee pretty badly. So I got to open my new… more »

We have been busy but generally out of cell and internet touch so haven't been able to post here as much as I would like. After we left the McKenzie we drove over a Forest Service road that cuts over from the McKenzie to the Willamette starting at Finn… more »

We finally pulled up stakes from our site on Jack Creek and headed west on Monday, June 30. We spent a full month in a dispersed campsite with no hookups. The systems on the motorhome all worked beautifully especially the solar. In all it was a lazy r… more »

The weather was so hot and the parking area had no shade and we had no arrangements to keep Bentley cool so we didn't actually attend the rodeo. We did go to the parade though. I told my brother on the phone it was 500 horses, 1 car and no floats. Act… more »

We bought tickets to the Saturday session of the Sisters Rodeo, one of those many Oregon events I have never been to before. Should be fun. I think the last rodeo I went to was in Roseburg some 20 plus years ago. The only one I remember before that wa… more »

We are sitting here in the cold overcast at the Camp Sherman Store where they have WIFI and a deck to sit on. We are camped about 8 miles from the store. The solar panels are working great. If we get a full day of sunshine, which we have had a couple… more »

Yesterday we filled both rigs with diesel plus filled the empty 20 gallon propane tank on the motorhome. Total cost was over two hundred dollars and that was for less than a half a tank on the Jetta and a third of a tank on the Airstream. If I had to f… more »

Today is Bentley's birthday. :p He was born a year ago and spent his first 3 months getting ready to be a great little puppy for Greg and me. He then joined Greg and me on our traveling adventures. He has worked out to be the best little guy for us. I… more »

This is an invitation to those interested in a get together in Central Oregon over the weekend after Memorial Day, near Suttle Lake and the Metolious River. Post in the comments section if you are interested and I will give more you details when we know… more »

The world would be a sadder place without the "caring gene" you all have. My own mother passed on so I can't call her or see her so this is to all of you. Thank you for what you do. Greg more »

I read in a novel I am currently reading that leadership consists of running fast enough to stay ahead of your followers. There's a lot of truth to that. I would add that you need to look over your shoulder occasionally to see if they're still back the… more »

All work and no play is about right. The job is interesting and challenging and I am working with good people on important stuff. The time should fly by and this first four weeks certainly has. Random thoughts: Diesel at $4.40 a gallon now. That… more »

It seems that whenever I blog on this site it is about the weather. This year has given me a lot to say about the weird weather, no matter where I happen to be sitting. On March 31st it was snowing here in Salem in the morning. That is really bizzar… more »

I keep asking myself why I came out of retirement these mornings of getting up and getting ready to go in. When I finally see a paycheck it will come back to me I'm sure. I was thinking this morning that this is giving me the opportunity to live throug… more »

He was 59 and went out fighting. We will miss him. Greg more »

We have decided to stay here through the weekend rather than leave today. And after I go north Von will be staying here with Kim and my brother to help out. I plan to stay with my daughter in Corvallis and commute to Salem until this is all over with J… more »

This has been a difficult week. I don't have any new insights about death and dying to share but I do know that my love for Von and an appreciation for how special it is has grown. That I appreciate more the importance of strong family connections in t… more »

We made it to Reedsport at 6:30 last night. Five days of pretty solid driving. I posted photos at the gallery. The change in the climate after Reno was dramatic. We made it from Goldfield to Susanville on Sunday. Then from Susanville to Weed Monday… more »

We had a leisurely morning, starting on the road at ten. Not a bad drive even getting through Las Vegas. North of there the traffic was very light and we drove until 8:00. As it got later the wind was gusting up to 30 or 40 miles and hour. We had pla… more »

Just a quick note. We left Mesa at about 1:30 and just arrived in Laughlin. It's almost 9. so about a 300 mile day which is a good day for us. Diesel prices are getting outrageous. $3.70 a gallon at least. I paid $3.20 the last time I fueled. Argh… more »

We will be leaving the RV park tomorrow. We have moved up our leave date and decided to forgo the drive to Texas to change our domicile until we get back down this way again. Jimmy has taken a turn for the worse so we want to get to Reedsport as soon a… more »

As Von says in the earlier post we went to see the Beavs get clobbered by ASU. I also saw ASU play on Friday night. They are a solid team with some great hitting. It will be interesting to see of OSU pulls it together like they did last year. Don't f… more »

The huge increase in the number of hits this blog gets lasted all of two days. Von thinks, and I agree, it must have been caused by my using the uncensored name of the coffee brand in the blog the day before the increase. Interesting. We did get ove… more »

The number of hits on our blog has increased dramatically these past two days. We were seeing around 45 per day and it vaulted to 195 yesterday and we already have 99 this morning at 8:00. This does not count a few googlebot hits that we get every day.… more »

Happiness returns at 50. That sentence is a link by the way. more »

We had over an inch of rain here yesterday, A lot for here but I see the Valley floor had a bunch of snow so I ain't complaining. I can't say the same for Von. She really, really hates the rain now. Today is blue skies again but we expect more heav… more »

I think Lizzy's wedding was in many ways the best wedding I have ever attended. Tom's side of the family lives in the midwest and were unable to attend but aside from that there wasn't much to ask for. Having it at home and in a very informal setting w… more »

I said yesterday that I had some thoughts to post. I was referring to a conversation I had with Aaron the other day about the advantages and disadvantages to knowing that you were going to die within a fairly predictable timeframe. The wedding today is… more »

I made it to Portland and am blogging from my sister Pam's place in Coburg. The flight was uneventful. I did get a chance to see Crater Lake from the air. Pretty cool. I always look forward to seeing Mt. Hood on the flight to Portland but our approac… more »

We did a bit of running around yesterdsay thanks to by brother. The motorcycle needed a new battery. The original that was still in it was so badly drained from sitting for the past 8 months it wouldn't even take a charge. The Harley store in Mesa is c… more »

Just a quick note right now, we have to go get my bike, drive to Phoenix to day. i loaded 66 photos to the gallery you might want to check out. hope they loaded okay, i haven't had time to double check. Greg Oh, Jim was released from the hospital… more »

The gas gauge on the motorhome has never worked since we bought it so we have judged the need for gas on mileage. Then the speedometer cable broke the other day and we were figuring by guess or by golly. And we were wrong. We went to the Post office a… more »

It finally rained and rained pretty hard last night here in Tucson. It was kind of like being in Oregon with a big difference. It only lasted for one night and not for days and months. You should have heard all the people that we talked to today. The… more »

We found an Escapees park only a half mile from the sardine can so we decided to save the driving. The wind blew in after my last blog and knocked some branches off a tree. Pictures in the gallery. We will be here a few days, then we will be heading… more »

We finally got a little of the rain they have been predicting, it left 15 raindrops on the windshield. Or so. B) We will be leaving this RV park this morning. They pack the Rigs in here like sardines so we will be moving to another that is out towar… more »

Getting Bentley neutered today kinda felt lousy. :'( I know it is for his own good, but I hate to see him so groggy and out of it. It makes me sad to think that I caused him pain in any form. :no: Wow, I can't believe how attached I've become to him. H… more »

Right now I am sitting at a Barnes & Noble with Von in Tucson. We dropped Bent off this morning (8 AM which is early for us these days) for his tutoring as the vet called it. He is already done and will be ready to pick up in 45 minutes. It is now… more »

Taking Bentley to the vet for a prescreening for his neutering tomorrow. The new photo gallery has many new photos, more to follow. check it out. Greg more »

We are planning a day of bowl games today. When I woke this morning it seemed to finally dawn on me that we are retired now. The freedom of not having the job responsibilities and the ability to do what we pretty well please seemed more real today. Ma… more »

Big bowl game today but I sure have low expectations. It will be interesting to see what Bellotti and his staff have come up with after the loss of Dixon. We will be heading down to an Indian Casino to watch the game later this morning. It is another… more »

We are camped with electric only hook ups in the county park. After the accident we arrived here quite timely. We have 4 bars on the data line so I was able to load a lot of photos at our photo gallery We had a wonderful day with Bill and Cyndi. Le… more »

Today marks a week in Phoenix. We have enjoyed it here but are leaving for Tuscon in the morning. Bill and Cyndi are driving down with us to tent camp in a county park called Gilbert Ray. It is in the Tuscon Mountain Park. We are going to visit two di… more »

No post from me yesterday out of sheer tiredness. We finally had a day in camp without either driving or going somewhere. It was nice, we slept in until 8:00. Which remeinds me. Bentley has been allowed to sleep in bed with us. He had slept in his k… more »

I am not a Seinfeld fan. I have never seen an entire episode but the Festivus jokes are great. Use this day to let everyone you love know about everything they've done during the year to piss you off. Put an aluminum pole up in the living room with no… more »

We had a really fun and relaxing day today. We spent most of the day with Greg's brother Bill and his family. Bill and Cyndi and 3 very fine grown children that are a delight to be around. Of course, Bentley kept us all amused with his antics and love… more »

It seems like it never would get here. The end of the year 2007 I mean. Today generally marks the end of the work year for me as I often took this next week off from work. That would be BR (before retirement) What with my injuries and surgeries and… more »

Our first full day in Phoenix was very pleasant. We spent the day with Glen Horsmann and his wife being chauffered around to buy miscellaneous odds and ends then they cooked us a great spaghetti dinner. We paid for a week at this RV park, which looks e… more »

We are in Phoenix at my brother's condo. I had a major computer breakdown this morning and just now am able to blog. This will be short as dinner is ready. More when I have time and get this computer back up to speed. Greg more »

The email generated over a hundred page visits yesterday but only a few people signed on. At least we know someone looked! It would be cool if you would sign on if you haven't already. If you are worried about security, this is software on a server w… more »

I sent a mass email out this morning so if you are here because of that there were some issues with posting comments but I think I fixed that. We are about to hit the road again. I have to take a shower and Von is almost done with the laundry. A lot… more »

If you are here as a result of our mailed invitation. Bookmark this page and join in. I had some issues with permissions to post but I think that is all worked out. We will be hitting the road shortly. It is starting to sprinkle a little here and Von… more »

I think this is the first day in months we have woken up to dry pavement and dry grass. It was 49 degrees F. at 7:00am. High is expected to be in the 60's so we have a ways to go to get to 75. My brother was looking at the national map and says I may… more »