I think I mentioned in an earlier post that I’ve been following blog of an 87 year old woman who’s been traveling around the US in her van. She is just so inspiring, not only in what she’s doing, but how open and honest she is about her experience. When she was scared about driving…

Otis and I got out for an early walk this morning as I was going on a hike with Julie and Gabriella. The streets nearby were blocked off because it was the San Francisco Marathon and the running route was one street over. I wasn’t sure how it was going to be getting through the…

Today, Otis, Chicken (the cat) and I had a quiet morning at home. Otis and I went out for a walk in the fog and saw a cool view of the Golden Gate Bridge.  Later in the morning, I went to mom’s as we had family friends coming over for lunch. I was able to…

Thursday was a catch-up day, got laundry done, finished my JNE report and resettled myself after being gone for the last week. Finally managed to get credit reporting set up for Mom after much conflicting information from Experian, that was frustrating and we ended up having to get someone from CalPers to get it straightened…

It was time to head home. We were both sad that we didn’t have more time to spend with all our relatives. When we were kids our family would drive up to Washington every summer for a couple of weeks. Some years we went to either Deer Lake or Loon Lake outside of Spokane, for…

After a final breakfast with our cousins in Seattle, we got on the road to Spokane. It was a 4 1/2 hour drive, the first hour and a half of which was gorgeous going through the Cascades. We passed a sign for Wenatchee, which made my sister cringe. When she was about nine years old,…

Another day, another ferry. This one took us into Seattle where we stayed with our cousins Janet and Bing in the North Beacon Hill neighborhood. Before we left I had a last walk on Vashon. The next two days were filled with lots of catching up with many different cousins – some we had not…

This morning we hit the road to Gresham, just outside of Portland, to see our cousin Rheanna and her husband Seth. They bought house earlier this year – a mid century modern style with wood paneling,  huge windows and lots of trees in both the large front and backyards. After a too brief stop to hear…

We were up and on the road to Eugene by 7 AM. We alternated listening to 80s tunes with talking about what was going on in the world, our families and life in general. We made good time to Eugene and were soon pulling up at our cousins Gwen and Fred’s place. It was fantastic…

OK so I have been very lax about updating my blog. I’m on a road trip with my sister Lori to visit relatives in Oregon and Washington and haven’t had the downtime I usually get in the evenings to post. I started my journey on Tuesday when I met Jody for lunch to catch up…