Phoenix Inn And Suites Eugene

... of my trip, like where I'm living, the classes I'll be taking, etc. But after my orientation today I'm officially excited. I've started to get back into that old French mindset, the one that I've experienced before my other two previous trips to France. By the time I leave it will have been almost two and half years since I've been there, and while going to a completely different country with a completely different language ...

... 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 ...

Dre.. transform and roll out..<br><br>Drove up to Eugene this weekend to stoop it with Benja and his lady Rachel. ****in refreshing.. <br>I met Benj in Kathmandu almost two years ago and he's pretty much my life. So being with him was incredible. I could go into details about my amazing weekend but it's just not going to scratch the surface or begin to explain his importance in my life. <br ...

... Oregon, which we thought was totally spectacular. We first intended to spend the night in Burns, but when we arrived there it became apparent that it had a population of under 100 people (no matter how big it looked on the map) so we went along to Bend, the skiing and outdoorsy capital of Oregon. Here we went out to dinner at Old St. Francis School, an old Catholic school that was renovated into a second run movie theater ...

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>

We left the ranch and came to Eugene OR a city I lived in back in 1988-90. I came here to participate in a few workshops and visit with good friends. This was the beginning of what I have called my ping-pong ball travels where I went between Eugene and Firth several times. This back and forth could be one of the reasons I was less motivated to ...

... in the lid as a guide, I was able to cut a very round, very centered hole, but when I fitted it on the top of my contraption, it didn't line up! That's when I realized that all the jiggling around to get the insulation to drain down actually misshapes the roundness of the can a little, and the centered-ness of the liner a little as well. Not a big deal, I just ran a sharpy around the outside of my liner and trimmed the lid down so that there was a 1/8 inch gap between metal and ...

... the weather will improve tomorrow. Eugene is a town of about 140 000 people and is really nice from what I have seen so far. To the east of Eugene is the coastal range mountains and ocean and to the west is the Cascade mountain range. There is a lot of forest with hiking and bike trails close to the city and a big river to the north of the city.

... us a ride to a safe place to start walking. Over the next couple of days we walked, stayed overnight with Virginia Tyler in Independence of Corvallis Friends and walked some more and stayed with Jay Thatcher and Linda Johansen in Corvallis, also of Corvallis Friends. We again enjoyed thoroughly our stays with Friends and found many things of common interest. We had a successful gathering with Corvallis Friends. One phenomenon for Ruah is the feeling of being close friends with our ...

... the neighborhood for hours eating everyones garbage:( My dad found her sitting on our front porch at 3 in the morning and let her in. The next day she was so sick (from all the garbage she ate) and she had nasties matted into her fur.