Sam And Saundra's Second Time Around - Part 1

Sam And Saundra’s Second Time Around  – Part 1

Oregon

10/11/10 - Another Beginning

It was a dark and stormy night. The snow had started piling up on the rooftops, which were threatening to mutiny … Well, not quite.

Crying I am, as we pull away from the ‘big’ house with the ‘little’ one in tow.  We had walked Owen to school, discussing important things. Things like – Halloween Costumes, How Can He Send Us Halloween Candy Because We Will Miss It, and How Soon Is Christmas.  Important things.  I know deep, down on the surface, we are leaving on this adventure by choice, but it is still hard since we can’t take each and every loved one with us.  Yesterday we celebrated Sami’s first birthday. Her birth on 10/8/09 was the official end of our first travel adventure. It is ‘poetic justice’ that our second begins with her first.  It also seems Shakespearish, Disneyish, or perhaps Hitchcockish, that the birth of our fourth grandchild will mark the end of the winter section of this adventure.  We are happily looking forward to his/her birth. Jaron, never an afterthought, is in our hearts as well.

View From Pario

With all that said – we rush back home from the school, jump into Brutus without even re-entering the house, and off we rush.  Right to Les Schwabs, where we wait for 2 ½ hours as they put two new tires on our fully loaded, filled to the gills, trailer. Then we are off like a herd of turtles.

Much of this trip is happening in areas previously visited and I will try my best not to repeat.  I am also not on a daily journal mode. Stop grinning!  You do not need to read this! Skimming is perfectly legal.