Super 8 Motel - Salem

After leaving Vancouver on Tuesday, we caught a bus to Seattle. This is where we picked up our hire car for our two week trip to LA. We spent one night in Seattle, then drove on to Newberg, which is just out of Portland. We spent one night in Newberg and the next ...

... nd h*d come over to bring N*son's kids b*ck from * weekend with Gr*ndm*. She w*s the first one out the door *nd it w*s WONDERFUL to see my sister. Between Bri*n *nd Le*f's *nd N*son *nd Ameli*'s f*milies, we h*d * gre*t bunch of kids there too. We just love those kids. They *re gre*t kids *nd just * lot of fun. They *lso give some of the best hugs you c*n get! Le*f h*d dinner w*iting on us *nd to top off * gre*t me*l, we got ...

... wasn't creation of an income stream, I found that downtown Salem yields about $3 an hour. <br><br>We quickly transformed into homebodies again this past month, but we did take a few day trips to<br>Portland (located approximately 45 minutes north) and Lincoln City (a<br>beach town on the Oregon coast, directly west of Salem). We were<br>privileged to have Clooe's company for most of the month. A terrific<br>golden retriever ...

... br>(equatorial)<br>by 40,041.47 kilometers around (meridional) is 70.8% covered with<br>water. That leaves 29.2% of our planet for us to share amongst our<br>approximately 6,706,993,152 human and countless other land dwelling<br>inhabitants. <br><br>We divide the 148.94 million sq km of inhabitable<br>land using imaginary and outright meaningless lines. We (English<br>speakers) then call these areas countries. Once again since there is no<br>real consensus on how many ...

... nice. An uneventful flight to Las Vegas, where looking down on the busy streets reminded me of our tragic time there in the spring! Had not thought of it in some time but seeing those streets just threw it back at me! I had a 2 hour layover there and plane change. Carol and Wayne met me after baggage claim, then off for dinner-this was not the time of evening to drive back across Portland! Izzys pizza buffet was where Wayne had left his car so went ...

... and heights. Quite a few of the falls were a mere trickle of water, I suspect from the fact that August is in the middle of the drier season. The trail was in good condition, having been originally constructed as one of the WPA projects after the great depression. The men were paid $1 a day for the hard labor involved in the trail construction. Near nightfall, I returned to my unticketed car and headed home for the night.

Today (Saturday) we start our first leg of a long day of travel. Wouldn't you know it I (Jack) would come down with a cold on Thursday morning. We leave Salem at 5:15 pm and fly to Los Angeles getting in at 7:35 pm. We twiddle our thumbs for a bit and finally catch the flight to Hong Kong on a Cathay Pacific Airways 747. That flight leaves at 10:20 pm (March 8) and we get into Hong Kong at 5:40 am on March 10. Remember that we will be ...

... court, a pool, and hottub. In our room, we have a small kitchenette. My brother went and played a bit of basketball. Then, we went to the pool. I just relaxed in the hottub for a bit while my brother floated in the pool with noodles (those long tubular floating things). This was quite nice after all the driving today. Tomorrow Tomorrow will be another long day. We will check out University of Oregon in Eugene. Then, we will be driving down Oregon into California.. . .

... quite a few times! Examples of stories we were told by people we met were: *65 year old Canadian, who travelled to LA to care for her sick mother in law, doing it to get in her husbands good books, but wont fly because of 9/11! *40+ women who was dressed up as a 21 year old, she had just spent 3 months in LA on vacation, her son had won a scholarship for uni as he plays the guitar?! Daughter works for macdonalds as a 'supervisor' - she was so proud ...