Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Continental Divide

We're at the Continental Divide having breakfast, catching some internet for the first time since Bellingham.

Hello! Yes, we're alive.

We hope to make it to Tok Alaska by tonight...

Cicero has been doing well, considering. The first night we camped he tried to escape. He's been hanging out in his crate most of the time.

We stopped at Liard Hot Springs yesterday. We also saw a lot of wildlife: a bear, two herds of mountain sheep, families of bison, a rabbit, a moose, and a groundhog.

P.S. The mosquitoes are HUGE here.

Sunday, July 4, 2010

Northwest Urban Jungles

Portland

Seattle

Timberline Lodge, Mount Hood, Sandy Oregon

Timberline Lodge, perched at 6,000 feet on Mount Hood, was a WPA project completed in 1937. I was very impressed.





The White River with Mount Hood behind the clouds.

Al's speeder.

Leaving Karen and Al's. Cat status: satisfied.

More to come...

We're in Bellingham with Robin Blue and the boys. This is the first time since Eureka that we've hooked up to an internet connection so I haven't posted regularly. Everyone is dreaming upstairs, it's 1 AM, and I should stop squinting in the dark at my keyboard and go to sleep. Hopefully I can catch up on the last few days before we head out tomorrow, into Canada!

Inland



Dan honed in on a skate park in Reedsport, right before we turned inland on Highway 38. I rekindled my flame for old barns along the way.

Family Roots


On the road to Bois Cope State Park. Ya heard.

Cope Lane in Langlois Oregon. That's right!

There's a lot of Cope and Decker family history in Port Orford, Langlois, and Coos Bay.

Port Orford




We visited my aunt Hana and uncle Rob in Port Orford, a pretty little town along the Oregon Coast.

Into Oregon


We stopped for lunch at a beach and Cicero got some air. Cat status: not convinced.

Eureka!

We stayed with my aunt Joann and uncle Don in Eureka, Calif. Cat status: comfortable.

Another photograph of the most photographed house in the country.


Don took us for a spin in his restored Bentley.

Saturday, July 3, 2010

Heading up 101 to Eureka


Sebastopol

We visited my Grandparents on the Garrison side, and stayed with my aunt Vicki in Sebastopol.

Cat status: freaked. Cicero spent a few hours under the bed until Dan drug him out. He roamed the living room all night, meowing at the screen door.

We went to The Union Hotel in Occidental for dinner with Vicki.


My Grandpa Fred Garrison turned 92 on Monday, Grandma Aline turned 93 on Thursday.