Destinations (now with links!)
I think this is a fair thing to say…
The love of my life will be here in 9 days.
True, we are not married any more, and haven’t been for 11 years, but we have known each other for 25 years now.
We met in August of 1981 when both of us were somewhat younger than we are now. We got married in 1984, and have lived in Maine, Rhode Island, and Oregon in the US, and in Kobe, Japan. It was in many ways a pefect match: We both love to see beautiful places, I love to drive, and she loves to be my passenger. We have traveled all over the US together, and, in fact, have driven over a lot of Japan too (I had a Japanese driver’s license).
We have had a regular driving trip each summer down the Oregon coast to Coos Bay, but we are not going there this year. I will miss the drive down the coast. It is a world class place to see and to be, but we aren’t going that way this year. (for reasons I feel little need to go into right now)
I’m thinking of possible destinations, and the boss owes me time off – after all, because of me, he’s able to travel home to Korea this week and next.
Some possible destinations:
Larch Mountain.
These steps lead to a specatcular view of the Cascade range of mountains and of the Columbia River.
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You can see seven of the peaks of the Cascade range here, from Mt. Rainier in Washington east of Seattle to the Three Sisters in southern Oregon.
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It is possible that we will drive the 70 some miles from Portland to Seaside…
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We might possibly drive down to Silver Falls state park, a beautiful place.
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One definate, for sure, destination is to Women’s Forum overlook, at the mouth of the Gorge, a place we always loved the view from:
That’s the best thing about Oregon, destinations worth going to, and not too far from Portland.
Here are some links to series of the Gorge I posted in the past:
Multomah Falls and the sunset
The Gorge last summer
The Gorge in hi-res
Let’s go for a drive – Icy waterfalls in December
The Columbia Gorge on New Years day, 2006
And, Swing Wide the doors of Perception
I wanted to go to Crater Lake this year, and it looks like we probably won’t, sigh.
Ever seen pictures of Arizona’s Painted Desert? We have been there, of course, but Oregon has a smaller version, the Painted Hills, near John Day. I have an urge to see them again… and they aren’t not tooo far away – just about three hours driving time.
It is a possible destination.
Y’all will come with us, here, at least.
More good pictures on the way. Stay tuned.
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Wow.. Both the pictures and the relationship you have with your ex.. Both are quite inspiring.
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^ can’t say it much better 🙂
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*looks up and nods* Yeah.
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*sigh* driving….i know what you mean. take care
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Challenge: Do an audioblog! One entry.
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Does the lady of your life have a say in where you are going? Exciting times ahead!
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Try http://www.zshare.net look for audio blog. It’s not the one I used, but I’m gonna use it next time ’cause it’s free. If I keep the one I used today over 7 days they’ll charge my Visa and I’d be just as happy with FREE!
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“Good” pictures? You mean GREAT Works of Art! 🙂 The relationship you have with K* is beautiful – something I hope to have one day. Husband/ Wife, Driver/ Passenger, Friends… sublime sentiments and emotions that have remained over the years – how wonderful. Enjoy the visit! I am in love with the “Women’s Forum Overlook.” Simply breathtaking.
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*wipes tear away* Corbett, OR…Larch Mt. is where I was actually living, so I’ve walked up those steps many times. About a mile away from the last picture of Womans Forum/Crown Point. Also, lived in Seaside, OR LOL Sorry, recognize these places so well and I keep coming back and posting more and more LOL
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ryn: thank you 🙂
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Kentucky Falls is also beautiful–and it’s a fantastic hike.
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Nice pictures. Did you get the job? You never told me.
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Hello!! I think *K* will love anywhere you were to take her, but do ask if she is now well enough to climb all those stairs.Im very long dream of you, I saw K come to visit and she had a cough and wasn’t feeling one hundred percent. ( I hope that dream was wrong in that bit!!, as it can be sometimes!!)
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i am busy today, so won’t take a long time noting you. I have to go and paint my mum’s small back verandah.We think we’ll do it cream and the same blue you have here in your diary.It is such a bright pretty colour!!It will make her old verandah feel nice and clean andd inviting a think. She has some floor boards on the floor which we could varnish, or else she might lay some linoleum on it.
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Any ways best get back to my work. It a warm 18 degrees to day after one degree early in te morning.–Hate to think how I’ll enjoy the high thirties when summer hits this year….. What have you been up today other than work??
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I have to, have to, have to go there. I will someday. I know you are looking forward to K’s visit. Have a fantastic time. 🙂
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Hi again!! You would have been very luckey to have lived in such a beautiful old home! I’d love to live in something like that with so much character. I did live in a one hundred year old house when my first daughter was only two.It doesn’t seem so long ago though. The house was sooo old that it was only lined with hesian on the inside walls. As time had gone by, previous owners had left…
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the hesian, but had wall papered over it!! We could count at least ten layers of different patterned paper in a small torn bit that had come away from the hesian.
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The house had a very big open fire in a very small lounge room. It still had an old iron swing out arm attatched to the inside of the chimney. I guess this was where the early residents used to cook their meals with a huge cooking pot hanging over the fire. I felt like i’d travelled back in time to the 1800s living there, although we did have a flush toilet down a muddy pathway in a little shed
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out in the back yard! The laundry was located next to the toilet, and hosted an old fashioned hot water service. It was like a huge water drum on stilts surrounded with a steel cylinder which we had to light a fire under to heat the water. Every morning we would wake up to freezing water, so I had to get dressed and go out and light the fire under the water drum, (tank).
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For a modern city girl, I became pretty good at chopping kindling, and lighting the fire. Sometimes I used to make the fire so hot that the water in the tank would boil and the over flow would come spouting out a hooked pipe ove rthe top of the laundry. I had to watch my that daughter didn’t getr burn by the spouting hot droplets that came down like rain.
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I aslo actually grew to love chopping wood too.I could swing the axe and split a log in half in one hit–much to my brothers embarrassment when he couldn’t do it! (I’d had quite a bit of practice by then!) That house also had a huge garden, so we had plenty of room to grow our own vegetables.Dj, My husband liked to dig large sections up and plant brocolli, carrots, beans, peas, potatoes etc.
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It was so nice being able to go out side and pick something fresh from the ground, to eat straight away. I didn’t havew a very good kitchen though, I remember. We had to make do withone tiny bench, and the only stove there was an old wood stove which had rusted to bits! We had to buy an old trailer stove to make do with.It had three little burners and a small oven so it wasn’t too bad….
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even though I had to sit the stove on four bricks just so it was high enough from the ground. The good old days hey..eventhough it was hard work, I think it gave me a taste of what it was really like for the people back in that time, although we didn’t have a horse and buggy.That would have just topped it off beautifully–but the old car we had was pretty good to have in any case.
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I was twenty one then, and I was just learning to drive. before then my husband had to choffieur me around everywhere, or else I’d walk miles and miles and miles like they used to do back then too! I guess we stayed there because the rent was cheap.Only 30 dallars a week comapered to 95 every where else at the time…..
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After ther ewe lived in four more rented homes, before moving to our present one.
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What nice memories do you have of your old fashioned home?
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I have plenty of note space!!
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What kind of digital camera do you use for these pictures? I’ve been wanting to ask you that for awhile but kept forgetting. <3
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ryn. sorry cat. Not with it at all. Congradulations! will you keep both jobs? This is so exciting.
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