Tuesday, September 4
Today we drove to Portland, which took about 4 hours. We met up Laura Mayo (my brother’s wife) and went to an outdoor park that had biking trails. We let the older kids bike with Laura and we let Bailey run around on foot. My brother is on a temporary assignment to Singapore so we missed seeing him. Tomorrow we will drive to Crater Lake National Park and spend a couple of days there. We reached Oregon today at mile 8142.
Monday, September 3
I had told the kids that it would be really fun if we found a place that rented kayaks we could kayak on puget sound. Unfortunately, Port Angeles does not have as many attractions as some of the other coastal citites on the pennisula. However, there was a place that rented row boats on Lake Crescent. The only problem was that they would only allow 5 people in the boat. Bailey wasn’t really excited about getting in a boat so Sheri and Bailey sat out and watched. The kids did fairly well at rowing, but Brandon was bored with it after 15 minutes. After the row boat experience we decided to go on a hike to a waterfall. Somehow Levi got an upset stomach so he and Sheri stayed in the car while I took the other 3 to the falls. On the hike I saw a gentleman approaching the large trees and wrapping his arms around them. I thought this was some exercise to measure the circumference of the tree. However, his wife commented that he likes to hug "his" trees because they don’t get enough attention. I had heard of "treehuggers" as slang for environmentalists, but this guy was a real tree hugger.
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