Wednesday, July 21, 2010

I am terribly amiss at updating this blog. I know I have only touched on all the events of my once in a lifetime trip to Thailand! I have yet to tell you about riding elephants, sleeping in tree houses in the Laos jungle and the wonder of having my lost camera returned to me in the metropolis of Chaing Mai ( much to everyone's surprise!) but that will have to come at a later time or in person.

Right now I am working as a Camp Host/Attendant in the Deschuttes National Forest along the Cascades Lakes Highway outside of Bend, Oregon. It's the easiest job I've ever had and it is not lack of free time that keeps me from posting... it's the extreme 'lay backness' of being up here. I do my rounds, read, float on the reservoir, walk trails with the dogs, or read.... whatever I feel like until it's time to do the rounds again.

Shiloh crashed and tore her shoulder up almost a month ago. She is still healing. So far I have not crashed or tore anything up on me! I am getting very tanned though! :-)

Ahh, must tell you of the random act of kindness I received yesterday..... I went in to Bend to get the oil changed on the car. While waiting in the shadeless lane, pinned in behind 2 cars with 3 more cars behind me waiting to be serviced at Oil Can Henry's in Southern Bend a man jumped out of a pickup that had stopped at the red light on the road running parallel to the OCH line, ran over to my car and handed me a $10 gift card for Oil Can Henry's! He returned to the pickup without saying a word and jumped back in just as the traffic light turned green. He was gone before I could say anything! And the card was good! So my oil change was $10 cheaper which helped to offset what I'd spent at Goodwill!

Thank you kind stranger!