I'll work backwards from where I am right now to where the adventure left off...right now I'm sitting at Mother's waiting for what better be a really good breakfast with my cousin Justin. They somehow passed my name on the wait list and 30 minutes became 60. Not really a big deal but just fit in with the theme of the past few days.
Lesson learned - ask for the second best breakfast place in town, because the best will have a really long wait...
"I touched a Glacier." - Justin's contribution to the blog, and it's true, he touched a glacier. Well we think it's a glacier, we named it the Boop Jemima Glacier (see photo).
Yesterday we met up at Mt. Hood at the Timberline lodge. He's out in eastern Oregon doing a training class for some super secret government thing out here for two weeks and was heading to Portland for the weekend.
In a million years if we had planned to get together or tried to go on vacation together it wouldn't have worked out so well. It was cool meeting him at the top of a mountain, seeing him perched on the rocks in the parking lot with a big smile when I pulled around the curve was a great welcome.
Mount Hood was cool, at first I was suprised at how dry it is, then I realized it's a volcano. Duh. Ash. But you can ski it year round. We walked for a bit across the ski slopes into the tree line and there was this tangible change in the environment. We went off the reservation. Lots of wildflowers and this great view of the Cascade Mountain range.
More to come on the rest of the Portland and prior Washington experience. Oh and I did make a day trip to Vancouver, BC. So stay tuned...
Cheers!
Kelly
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