WE START

OUT EARLY FRIDAY MORNING. THE HOURS WE SPENT CROSSING CALFORNIA WAS MANY HOURS, AND THE FUEL COSTS, WELL WE'RE IN CAL. NOW AND THEY ARE PROUD ABOUT THAT . NOW THE KIDS ARE WAKING US, I MEAN UP, AND NOW WE ARE TRAVELING MANY MORE EVENTLESS HOURS ALL ONE BIG HAPPY GROUP. WE EXPERIENCE FOG, OH NO THATS SMOG AS THICK AS FOG, UNTILL WE LEAVE THE BIG CITIES. THEN LOTS OF TREES. NOT BIG
TREES JUST LOTS OF GROUPS OF TREES OF THE ORCHARD KIND, SEVERAL VARIETY'S, PROBABLY PISTACIO, ALMONDS, AVACADO. ANY WAY ,
SORRY, NO PICTURES CAN DO JUSTICE TO THE MANY MILES OF ORCHARDS. BUT IT SEEMS ONCE WE CROSSED THE BRIDGES, NOW THESE ACTUALLY HAD

RUNNING WATER BELOW, THE TREES WERE OF THE
NATURAL HABITAT TYPE NATURAL TO SIGHT AND THEN WE CROSS INTO OREGON AND IT'S ALMOST AS IF YOU KNEW.THE COUNTRY SIDE. MOUNT SHASTA WAS A PRETTY SIGHT.

THIS IS AN ANIMAL REFUGE PARK WE VISITED.
IT HAD INJURED ANIMALS THEY HEAL UP AND
THE ONES HERE AREN'T ABLE TO RETURN TO THE WILD

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THIS ONE ANIMAL WE WISH WE COULD RETURN TO THE WILD, HAD ME PRETTY SHOOK UP FOR A MOMENT, THEN WE WERE OR JUST HAD BEEN PICKING BLACK BERRY'S AND THAT ONE MADE ME A LITTLE , OR WAS ONE OF THE BITTER ONES.

LOOK, THEY MELT IN YOUR HANDS AND ON YOUR FACE.

THAT WAS QUITE BITTER. LOL

HAVING FUN WITH THE BERRY PICKING, THEY HAVE THESE BUSHES GROWING LIKE WEEEDS.

WE ALSO WENT TO SEE LEESIS GET BAPTISED. MOM MADE HER BAPTISM DRESS OUT OF CAREY'S WEDDING DRESS. IT TURNED OUT GREAT.

THERE WAS A GOOD TURN OUT, AND A GOOD TIME.

ON LABOR DAY WE TOOK A TRIP TO THE RED WOOD FOREST JUST SOUTH OF GRANTS PASS. AND THEN FROM THERE WENT TO THE BEACH ON THE COAST , IT WAS ONLY ANOTHER HALF AN HOUR AWAY.

THIS ROCK

IS THIS ROCK AT THE SIDE VIEW

THEN IT'S EITHER HOME OR TO UTAH TO SEE SOME OF THE REST OF THE CREW, WHICH ONLY ADDS ANOTHER 20 HOURS OR SO. SO WE DECIDE WE DON'T WANT TO DRIVE BACK THE SAME WAY WE CAME , THEN IT'S ON TO UTAH TO VISIT THE KIDS THERE.

THIS IS UP THE CANYON ON THE BACK SIDE OF THE BIG OPEN PIT BINGHAM MINE. WE SPENT A COUPLE OF DAYS AT BRYNN AND CHUCKS PLACE AND SAW RUSTY AND TIM. THEY TOOK THE KIDS SWIMMING. WE HAD A GOOD TIME THERE.

THENBACK HOME WE GO

AND THERE YOU HAVE IT. WE GET HOME TO GRIFF.

AND INTRODUCE HIM TO ENGINE.

WE WILL LET YOU KNOW WHEN THEY START GETTING ALONG WITH EACH OTHER.