So I left John in bham and hit the road with my Mom, Connie, Duke, and Cider. We rolled out to Leavenworth, WA and camped out on icicle road. Then we were off to Montana and the Bitterroot valley for night to of remote camping at Gold Creek. The 3rd night we pushed on to Sandy UT and reunited Connie with Bill. We stayed at a Best Western plus...Cider loved the cush hotel. It seemed to be his style:)
Had a great time in the Dixie National forest and Bryce National Park. We camped out at White Bridge in the Dixie National forest. Then we explored the area before heading out to Flagstaff.
This is a great town and was a fun place to rest up before headed over to Las Vegas in order to pick up this guy John from the airport. Sad to say goodbye to Duke and Cider but we will see them next week in Ruidoso.
We made it back to B'ham for a couple weeks to try to sort out my ongoing back problems and its been great. Highlights include Sue's surprise birthday party, a giant wind storm, playing with the new kitten, Kyle Knudsen's 3rd b'day, a trip to Lopez island, reuniting with Karen, Connie, Cider and... DUKE!!! A trip to Lummi island, a dinner party for the Alaskans, Octoberfest and lots of Doc appointments. More news from the doctors on my bad back in the next couple of days, hoping it's good news.
On to Portland, we caught up with Anchorage expat Sarah Layton, hit the farmers market, the Tao of Tea Chinese Garden, then met up with Bob and Christina and hit the town before heading to Vancouver to join the rest of the family for a late dinner.
On the way to Hood River we stopped by Stonehenge and a fruit stand. Gary and Leslie kindly took us in when we got there, had a party and showed us the awesome local concert venue "the ruins". We had a great time hanging out there, thanks Gary and Leslie!
Headed to Walla Walla from McCall. We drove through some pretty bad smoke to get there, but it finally cleared up as we got into WA. We wandered around and Kara did a bit of wine tasting while we were there.
