May 2017, Penultimate Eureka Visit
Things are starting to heat up on the next big Life Change for Martha’s family. They are (we hope) buying a house on Petaluma in the summer/fall, and to that end they have given notice on their happy rental home on the … Continued
April 2017, Family and Basketball
Late start today. I am still getting over having respiratory problems for the last two weeks. I am clearly not on my game, because if I was I would not have eaten at IHop on the way out of town. I know better … Continued
Feb 2017 – Floods and Family
I lay in my comfy bed this morning weighing whether to get my butt in gear today or wait until tomorrow. The weather is pretty crappy, but the forecast is for it be even worse tomorrow and the next few days. … Continued
Dec 2016 Christmas Visit
Time for this year’s Christmas Trip to Eureka. The plan is to sleep in a parking lot first night out, so I can be pretty leisurely about when I get started. But when I got around to getting my stuff down the … Continued
Post-election visit to the family
When I got home in the last week of September, I was in the grip of a really nasty respiratory virus that left me breathless from the simplest of exertions. So my first week back I did none of the things I … Continued
One last bit down 395 before wrapping up my Big Adventure
I did about as well as I could shade-wise, but by 10:30 the sun was baking everything on my scrub oak hillside, so my time was up. I stayed here 16 years ago on a pre-WHUFU trip, and had very … Continued
Birthday with the Family
Finally there is a nice lunch place in Crescent City. Lots of road construction on 101 south of there, took longer than I thought to get to Eureka. hang out, eat chili with the fam. hope I don’t get sick … Continued
Treat myself to some beach days
Damn the trees are thick around here. The only little patch of glare tells me it’s sunny, and staring upward I see bright blue, but it sure feels gloomy. It is a beautiful, sunny Sunday. Very nice in the piney woods, but … Continued
Boise again, then Bend … and a detour
I woke up in the middle of the night having the feeling of an incipient cold. Kinda sneezy and chilly. This bummed me out. Perhaps that final nighttime soak in the big pool was one soak too many for my body in … Continued
Southern Idaho has Hot Springs
The weather was calm and sunny in the morning but 15 degrees colder! The large family was very busy milling around their four trucks by the time I took down my privacy screen and joined the outside world. They started leaving soon … Continued