Express Inn & Suites Eugene

... like jumping into a cold pool I don't think it will take me long to get "warmed up" again. <br><br>In case you're wondering what the phrase in my URL is, it comes from this song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsXknE8L OEI<br><br>The meaning of the phrase is almost impossible to translate. But it kinda means "it's going good for me". That's the best way I can put it. <br><br>So, until January I'll just have to say à bientôt!

... Now....I don't remember either of us saying anything out loud like "wow, things are going smoothly" ...but I know we were thinking that. So, when we got to our car, it was dead, dead, dead. After an unsuccessful try at jumping it via the hotel van, we called AAA and they sent someone out to help. It took a while to charge up the battery again, but 90 minutes later, we are finally on our way again. <br><br>But wait.....we're really low on gas ...

... to say.. I had a great time. <br><br><br>In other news..<br><br>Rob' brother Brian and his wife Sue arrived on Monday and are staying to Friday! It's great to see some family! And Mum and the boys are coming for the weekend! YAY! <br><br>I've been hard at work on my halloween costume for the party we're going to this weekend.. pictures to be posted in the future!<br><br>Today.. solo adventure.<br>

I went back up to Eugene, picked up Katie and we drove back to Idaho. On the way there we camped in the Cascades at the Metoleous River. The photos don't really show how incredible this is, at the mouth of the Metoleous the water comes out of the side of the mountain. Turn around and it's a full river.<br><br>We drove through the Craters of the Moon National Monument, also an incredible area.<br>

... oh well.<br><br>I went to the coast with my friend LaRosa, drove by my old house and found the fence I built and designed still standing :) I went to my first of several WINGS seminars, I am learning and growing a lot from these seminars and will stay connected with the program. If you're curious, google WINGS Eugene and check them out.<br><br>

... hot. I left it that way for about 6-8 hours while doing other things. Sure enough, the water spot slowly dissappeared over that time. While my pot was drying, I decided to read up more on how tandoors work. That's when I realized that the tandoor is more than just a clay-walled oven, but they work by essentially building up and trapping the heat inside, and they can get up to insanely hot temperatures. Then I realized that there was no way my tandoor was going to get hot enough with ...

Getting excited to go - This time next week we will be eating somewhere in Venice, Italy! We can't wait. List is stressed trying to finish up all her budgets for work ( this is really NOT the best time for her to be taking off work). She will probably pass out from relaxation once we get there :).

To recapitulate a bit. <br><br>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 unfinished.<br><br>I was able to "provisionally" finish the painting, and locate a placement for it in a position which I imagined and which I called a "public conservatorship." The ...

... Portland suburb of Sherwood. She would have walked with us, except she was going to be running a half-marathon the next day and needed her day of rest. It was wonderful to have some additional time to get to know her. We were sad to be leaving many new-found friends behind, a downside of our travels of the heart, but we knew there were more friends ahead to meet. As we walked into Newburg, we found ourselves in a community with many Friends churches, as well as George Fox ...

... Asian pears and goat cheeses contributed. There we met our friend Raspberry Ralph. A native of Kentucky, he now lived on a farm outside of the city that grows food for non-profit organizations, including Hosea. We laughed and talked with him in the market for much longer than we expected. He bought us raspberries, Asian pears, and tomatoes they were scrumptious! His feet and chacos were very hard core from being on the farm and we thought a lot of him ...