1st plane stop over - next stop San Francisco.

When we got up this morning in Grants Pass, it was snowing to beat the storm. We were glad that we made the extra effort to get through the mountains to reach Grants on Thursday night or we really could have been in trouble on Friday morning. Special thanks to my amazing landlord, Rob Siebert. Rob drove Deb and I down to Bellingham to pickup the U-Haul truck so that we could leave our car in the driveway. Not only did Rob drive us to Bellingham but he helped me ...

While I always try to pre-plan these little vacations to the best of my ability, should I have thought that there would be no room at the INNS in either Seaside or Cannon Beach under $260.00 per night for a two bedroom with whirlpool tub anywhere in each of these two towns. We arrived early into Cannon Beach to just a glorious, not-a-cloud-in-the-sky day as it's only about one and a half hour drive from Portland. The first thing on the agenda was to go out to t...

Deb and I left early on Thursday morning so that we'd get through customs in a reasonable time. Since Huntington got the Nexus lanes, it really has paid off by eliminating both the southbound and northbound delays. Heading southbound we stopped at the Mount Saint Helens Informmation center to get a sense of the destruction that this eruption caused to the landscape back in May of 1980. Traffic was good southbound so we made good time arriving into Portland area b...