Family Gathering on Fripp Island
This year for the first time in several years we had a chance to get all the family together again at one time in one place. We had 17 adults (or near adults) and...
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Some Soaring Photos from the 2017 Seniors Contest
Ronnie and I spent several weeks at Seminole-Lake Gliderport in central Florida in January, February and March. I was preparing for and then managing an event that has been going on for the last...
Annual Boat Parade on Fripp Island
Friday evening just after sunset ….about 5:30 PM…a beautiful evening With temperature in the low 50’s, not too bad for a walk around the Marina Captain Ralph was dressed as Santa and took a...
A Walk on Porpoise Drive – after the Hurricane
Yesterday, two weeks afterward, we walked up Porpoise Drive along the Fripp Inlet again….it looks more like a beach with rocks thrown around This resident rode it out …the debris in front is a...
Hurricane Matthew – The damage is stunning
Out on a bike ride yesterday morning and I saw that all the houses on Porpoise Circle were hit with major flood damage. These homes are only a few hundred yards from ours…. This house is...
Matthew Cleanup
I called a local tree man Thursday evening right after we were allowed back on the island….so we were first on his list ….Friday afternoon he and his crew with a Bobcat and chainsaws cleared...
Hurricane Matthew
We just got back to our house yesterday, after a week, and were able to breathe a sigh of relief….no house damage and no water in the house. Our next door neighbor has a...
Columbia River Gorge…..a little more
Our last day at Cascade Locks we went back to the main attraction on the old highway…it was Monday so we thought it wouldn’t be crowded…think again….there were several hundred people around the visitor center...
Columbia River Gorge
We drove to Cascade Locks, Oregon last Friday. It’s on the Columbia about 50 miles east of Portland….Saturday was a beautiful day so we headed to the famous Vista House at Crown Point. The building is 100 this...
Cape Perpetua
The best beach of all…a little south of the town of Yachats….around Cape Perpetua…the color of the water was brilliant ..the waves were crashing in this cove ….temperature about 62 degrees… The...
Tillamook
The Air Museum is amazing. This building is the largest wooden building in the world. This was one of 10 locations around the perimeter of the US, build in 1942 to house blimps. The blimps purpose was...
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