Archive for 'Travel' Category
Return to a long lost hobby
17 August 2007From 1993 to 2000, I spent lots of time photographic Masonic Lodges as we traveled by car and motorcycle. In 1995, when the World Wide Web was born, I started posting those photos on my site. At the last, I had over 600 photographs of over 100 lodges in about 20 states. Somewhere around […]
This Week in Chehalis
16 August 2007The week in Chehalis was about as enjoyable, yet quiet, as expected. This is the prototypical Thousand Trails, being the first one created, back in 1972.
Some of the highlights included a campfire on Wednesday night and a really cool ride up the back roads to Centralia, then along other back roads down to the […]
Bob Franke at the Matrix Coffee House
12 August 2007We fell in on acoustic music last night. The Matrix Coffeehouse, a local venue here in Chehalis, WA, had Bob Franke in for a concert.
Bob is a singer-songwriter that I’ve heard on XM Radio a bunch. He did about 15 songs in two sets including “Hard Love” and “Alleluia, the Great Storm is Over.” Also, […]
Portland, and northbound
10 August 2007Saturday, August 4 found us traveling into Portland for the day. We attended the Saturday Market, an eclectic collection of arts and crafts, as well as music and food. We drove to a park and ride, then took the Max light rail into Portland. I’m impressed with Max. They did a good job. One spooky […]
Travelin’
3 August 2007Well, I posted back in late July that we were on the road to the Autoharp Gathering, and, indeed we were. The Gathering was all that it usually is, if not more. Cathy Britell, Tom Schroder, John and Kathy Hollandsworth and Harvey Reed were our featured performers and workshop leaders. Pete Daigle, a very fine […]
Back on the road… Oregon
22 July 2007We’re heading to the Willamette Valley Autoharp Gathering. I go every year, though I’m not much of a player. I strum chords, play rhythms, and try to melody-pick without much success. If I practiced more, I’d have a better result.
We left Friday night, overnighted at Camping World in Cordelia Junction, then drove to Weed, CA. […]
Taeko Ikegaya at 2007 California Autoharp Gathering
23 May 2007One of the highlights of the CAG was the attendance of Taeko Ikegaya, who traveled all the way from Japan to attend. Here is a photo of Taeko performing at the event.
On the road again
18 May 2007This week is the California Autoharp Gathering, and, at the last minute, I decided to go.
I left yesterday (thursday) evening, and drove out from San Jose to Los Banos, overnighting at Wal-Mart. This morning, I completed the drive to the Saint Nicholas Ranch Conference Center and Retreat, run by the Greek Orthodox Church. A gorgeous […]
Safely Home Again!
5 May 2007We returned home today. I spent a few minutes putting captions on the images in the Gallery.
An update
4 May 2007We’ve been bouncing around here in the Stockton-Sacramento area since Escapade. We stayed the weekend at the fairgrounds, and I had work done on my truck on Monday. I got new performance gauges for the engine. On Wednesday morning, we moved up to Sac, and spent the morning at the Aerospace Museum for the Leonardo […]