An Oregon Collage

Our weekend in the Mt. Hood area found us attending the (pioneer) Foster family picnic in Eagle Creek, where Janice held court in the tack room of a barn. That’s authentic. The next day, a trip to the Timberline Lodge on Mt. Hood, where 36 degree weather greeted us (they received 2 inches of snow later in the day). Lunch there consisted of ham and bean soup, which was perfect to take the chill off. Hiking was cancelled.

Returning to the rig, including a few games of Scrabble, we enjoyed a roof-thumping downpour that lasted over an hour. Fellow campers in tents waited out the deluge huddled inside tents, filled with cranky little kids and stinky-wet dogs as the temperature dropped to 51 degrees.

We headed to dinner at the Rendezvous Restaurant (at milepost 40) near the Wyeast Bookstore. (Bought our third book there, a new Garth Stein novel). Dinner included crab and shrimpcakes (Janice) and fried oysters (me) complimented by the requisite chardonnay.

Returning to von Tagen vista, we set up camp again and then headed to downtown Portland for an 11 mile bike ride around the waterfront with Fritz and Dee. A beautiful and interesting ride on level paths.
Janice got her plane ride with Fritz as he shot some photos of nearby sites. Of course, the flight started out with them buzzing our camp at low altitude. I signaled them with a ‘snow angel’ in the grass. While they were flying, I headed to the driving range to do a little sand-trap work. Golf is on today at Stone Creek with Pete, a friend of Fritz’s, who accompanied me last week during my golf relapse.