My Afflation

Cherries! advertised at 99 cents but I bought a $3 basket of white cherries. Yummy! sweet and delicious and slightly chilled. this is also the first time i've ever had white cherries.

Taken with an Olympus E-510, in an SUV doing 65mph, by the passenger, Jes Scott on the Grapevine headed south.

This more represents our actual route. We didn't take the coast, didn't stay in a hotel, and drove straight through. We left Hillsboro about 11:30 AM and had a few errands to run before actually hitting the road. We stopped in Grants Pass for dinner, got directions to Wal-Mart, and then were on the road again. Jes drove from Portland to GP, I drove from GP to .... somewhere south of Sacramento where we gassed up again. I drove from Lodi (I think) to Pasadena, we rested a bit and got the kids breakfast and stretch out some before the final leg that Jes took by herself from Pasadena to Yorba Linda. WHEW!!! And we get to do it again on Tuesday -- in reverse. View Larger Map

Today is the day. I get into Portland about 9:30 tonight and we start driving ... around 3 or 4 tomorrow morning I think. We're going to take the 5 as far as we can and then cut over to the coast for a while before going back on the 5 and then to Jes final destination. Good thing I am bringing my GPS , this is going to be a good test of it. Especially when it comes to finding rest stops and the like. To quote Jes, "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so excited!!!" Hope the kids have fun too. View Larger Map

Tim got into Redding last night about 1. He left here about 2:30, later than we had planned. Pray for him, will ya. Safe trip, that he stays awake and that the CHP stay away.