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Eugene Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Eugene, United States
Let the Road Trip Begin, But First We Need a Car
This is a top pick! From Hawaii we flew to Seattle to visit our friend Jamie and start planning our trip back across the United States. Allison, though, had to leave almost immediately to go visit some law schools on the other side of the country, so Jamie and Jeff had the ...
World Partners Fellow
This is a top pick! In 8 days I will board an 18 hour flight to Thailand, which I will make my home for the next seven months as a World Partners Fellow. The World Partners Fellowship is in its third year and is a programme run by American Jewish World Service. AJWS is ...
Special Guests Bill and Adam Return!
This is a top pick! ... the west coast. We realized it was an extra-good decision when we discovered we'd left our rain coats at Justin's house in Eugene. The next day we headed south on Highway 1, crossed into California and pulled into Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park. We ...
Eugene
... with some local Pinot Gris. Today we drove from Eureka through great country of Redwood forrests and National Parks. We have come to Eugene because it it one of the premium athletics tracks in the country and Fletcher wants to check it out. We had a ...
A little break from camping
... haben wir Randy und Nicci getroffen. Sie fanden unseren Bus toll und so kamen wir ins Gespräch. Eine Einlandung nach Eugene folgte, die wir annahmen. Randy arbeitet im Krankenhaus und macht auch noch Akupunktur. Er hat sich um meinen Tennisarm ...
Univerisity of Oregon
After passing through Coos Bay, Oregon and seeing Steve Prefontaines High School track, we decided to keep on trucking up to Eugene. We thought that the trail dedicated to him was in Coos Bay, but it's actually in Eugene. Once we got to Eugene, the first ...
Drive to Crater Lake
This morning we woke up, ate breakfast, an packed. We drove to the University of Oregon. We walked on the track at Hayward field where Steve Prefontaine ran. we toured the campus aimlessly for about three hours and then hit the road again. We drove to ...
Vickie & Steve in Eugene, OR.
June 15th. Found a parking lot in Eugene on our "Overnightparking" web link and when we got there, two other RVers were parked for the evening. This lot is situated by a good sized river which has a biking/hiking trail that runs along side it. On our ...
Do we have everything?
Hello everybody from Kirby and Rebecca! For those of you who are still wondering what this is all about, I apologize, I didn't get a chance to send an individual email to everybody notifying them of our latest travel blog. For those that still don't ...
Last Act Before Departure: A Ceremony
To recapitulate a bit. Before leaving on a projected two-year experiment in living in Turkey, and all the unknowns of travel and and such, considering my own mortality I felt obligated to a painting that I had begun some 34 years before that rested ...
My trip!
I'm going on vacation! I have only four more days including today to get ready, and I have nothing done. Wait, I have my ticket and passport ready, and I know what shoes I want to take- so that counts for something, right? So here's the plan: I leave on ...
Home is Where the Heart Is
Hi again. It's nice to be home. For me at least...poor Andrew is back at work. As for me, I hope to re-join the ranks of the respectably employed in September if my firm will have me back early. If not, it looks like we'll be ...
Hangin' at the condo
The next day I think we spent time at Dav's condo by the river before heading out. I might have the time frames slightly screwed up, but I remember that we played pool, went fishing in the river (didn't catch anything) and Don and George (maybe Dav as ...
Seattle to Eugene
... leather biking jacket but not one of us really wanted to ride with any protection i did finally remove mine when we hit the outskirts of Eugene and if it as hot again today I may not be the only one. Stayed at the Broadway Inn which thankfully had a pool ...
Getting ready to go
... is almost time to go and we have been busy saying our goodbyes to our fabulous friends and family. Andrew and I will leave Eugene on 12/24 to spend Christmas eve in Portland with Mary, Gary and Nina. On Christmas morning we will have to ...
My new address
After five or six days of bumming on Tyler Kneale's couch and spare room, I finally found a place to live, and I loved it, Except that the cabinets were a nasty shade of Purple. That would have to ...
A week out, and a manic panic sets in...
Well, it's 4:00 a.m., one week before I hop on a series of planes and spend some quality layover time here and there on my way to Bangkok where the adventure begins. Actually, I expect the adventure will begin this week; well, maybe it begins now, as I ...
The University Strikes Back
I have come full circle. And found myself at home, right back where I started three months ago, in the Green Garter Band. This year due to lack of space we had to rehearse in a gym. I found out that I will be assistant section leader for the Low Reeds ...
Countdown!
Nine days! This morning, I drove my brother Ethan to the airport to catch his flight to Florida. I won't see him 'til New Year's- not too far out, but I'll be back from India, he'll be back from, basically, another ...
zurück in Oregon
Schon seit ein paar Tagen sind wir zurück in Oregon. Wie schon bei der ersten Fahrt durch Oregon erinnert dieser Staat sehr stark an das südliche Deutschland. Allerdings sind die Berge hier meist vulkanischen Ursprungs. Aber so haben wir schon ein ...
Starting out at Dav's
Best I can remember we started out assembling at Dav's place and had a great cookout the first night. Dav, Don and George each helped cook the best ribs using a boil and then BBQ method that was new to me. We sat out on the back deck catching each ...
Leaving Eugene
The last thing I did in Eugene was play a Green Garter Band gig for the graduating seniors in the honors college. I finished the gig at 9:30 and my parents drove like mad to get me to the airport before my midnight flight (thanks dad). I am keeping my ...
Drive to Eugene, OR
... . They had a coffee shop and snack center at the top along with an outside viewing deck. After the needle, Eric wanted to visit the map store. We walked to it and looked around do a while. Later we drove to Eugene Oregon and stayed in a hotel that ...
Back to the 45th Parallel
... and restaurant waitstaff. We love this aspect of our pilgrimage. We spent the night with Chuck and Carole Pearce, members of Eugene Friends Church. They took us into church the next morning for the early service, where we gave part of our presentation ...
Nothing major in Eugene Oregon
Miles so far: 5052 What's in Oregon: Pretty much nothing So we mainly went to Oregon to sleep. It was nice to drive through and see a million trees! Not much to say about it. Just writing an entry to put a pin in the map. Next stop, ...