Author: Mike Pekrul

It’s been over a week since my last post, hard for me to fathom. Even though Susanne was gone, I stayed busy, going and seeing and doing. Yesterday, we left Oregon “for good”, at least on this trip. I’m sure we’ll come back someday, we really liked it there. We moved up to Gig Harbor,…

And let’s not forget to mention Lewis and Clark. EVERYWHERE you turn around here, there’s another something named after Lewis and Clark. Parks. Streets. Hills. Banks. Trails. You name it, and something is called Lewis and Clark (fill in the blank). Never Lewis Street, or Clark Avenue, ALWAYS “Lewis and Clark”. Needless to say, I’ve…

I was out here with my son’s Boy Scout troop back in 2013 for summer camp. At that time, we visited a small cheese factory in Tillamook Oregon. It was on my list to go visit again, so today was the day. Oh My Goodness! It is no longer a small factory. The actual cheese…

We left home on January 5, had to hook up and drive through Georgia in the rain. Since then, I have seen rain maybe five times. Never even bad enough to break out my rain coat, most of the rain has been civilized, only raining overnight and done by morning. We’ve been snowed on more…

First, a big thanks to Darian, Brett, Debbie, and Rease, loyal readers all. Neal and Cindy hit me with some feedback now and then as well. For everyone else, please do me a favor and hit the “Like” button in your email or on the post as you read this. Just trying to figure out…

We’re coming to the end of our stay here in the Columbia River Gorge tomorrow. It’s been a hiking, biking, walking, and waterfall bonanza here. I passed 475 miles on my bike yesterday. I’ve walked over 35 miles since we arrived in the gorge two weeks ago. And, we didn’t quite make 100 of the…

Every time we pass a dam in any river, I yell “Dam!”, and Susy looks up nervously and asks “what? what’s wrong?” 🤣🤣🤣. I’m hilarious, but for some reason she doesn’t think so. We visited the Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River. It’s the first dam on the river coming from the ocean, and about…

4am. It’s dark. It’s quiet. It’s still kinda cool but it’ll be hot later. There’s almost no cars on the highway. Susy and I tore ourselves from the bed and headed out, we had to be there by 5:30 or we might be left behind. We drove to the airport and there was no one…

Yesterday we went for another bike ride on the Historic Columbia River Highway State Trail. That’s the old Highway 30, which was the first paved road in Oregon, built in the early 1900’s. It follows the Columbia River all the way along the gorge for mile after mile. Some of it was overtaken when Interstate…

I’ve never been to England or anywhere in the UK for that matter. France and Belgium are the closest I’ve been. And now the state of Washington. At least it was kinda like England today. Near the town of Maryhill Washington, a man named Samuel Hill, a hundred years ago, built a full scale replica…