Rest of the trip photos ~

Utah, interesting land formations.

Start of the Rocky Mountains...

Going through St Louis Missouri, very early hours in the morning. As you can see, very little traffic this time of day.

Missouri sunrise... just before we made it to St Louis.

Illinois.. very polite folks here.

The Mists of the West Virginia Mountains.... Almost to our destination!

Second day

Early morning the second day of our travels across the country.

This day we traveled through Idaho and Utah.

Heading towards the snow.

We stopped at Evenaston WY for the Night. Quite cold out around 11*, bit of snow on the ground but the roads where dry.

The first day traveling through Oregon.

First day on the road and traveling through the beautiful Columbia River Gorge in Oregon. The day was bright, sunny and the wind was incredibly strong. White caps on the river and the wind bending the trees in half.

We stopped for lunch at the Bonneville Dam.

More beautiful Columbia Rover Gorge.

A bit sad, as it is doubtful I will ever see this stunning area again. Very glad I have some good photos.

Here we are heading to Pendleton. Heavy winds here too and just before the town, we were attacked my a number of wild Tumble Weeds! Wish DS took a photo of it, as it was impressive.

After driving for hours with a coypus number of Tumble Weeds stuck to the grill and waving at me from the front edge of the hood...

I spent a little time pulling all the TW out from various places they have stuffed themselves around my SUV. Incredible to say the least.

Driving on the dry side of Oregon heading out of Pendleton, up into the hills where the wind was so bad, best speed I could go was 45 miles an hour, and the wind trying its best to rip the hood off the SUV. I have never driven through winds this strong. But at least the drive wasn't boring. LOL

The Move

As you all know, DH was not able to find a job in Oregon and had to travel 3,000 miles away to find one.

It took us 14 months away from each other to finally sell the house.

We both loved the Farm in Oregon very much, but one must go where the work is.

Can see the boxes in the old place, day before the moving truck arrived.

I boxed the whole house myself, to make sure things were packed correctly and trying to save a little money. Moving is very spendy.

The Pilot packed up and ready to go. Along with the needed people stuff, we had three cats in there. Needless to say it proved to be a bit interesting at times. LOL

Good News

Good News,

We finally sold our farm and we put a bid on this place and was accepted!

It is a simple single story house on 20+ acres.

One of the Bedrooms.

Beautiful country Kitchen.

One side of the living room.

No fencing of course, nor run in sheds for the horses, but at least we now have a place to call our own.

Hay field and Bucks

Looking toward the house from the road.

Hay field from the road.

The Bucks stops here! LOL DS told me there were deer out in the main pasture.. I figured it was just Does and fawns again. But no, there were 4 bucks. Haven't seen that before. Can see how green the hay field is, normally this time of year it is brown. Could almost get a 2nd cutting.

Pearson's Air Museum and the Evergreen Air and Space

One of the gentlemen that volunteered at the Pearson's air museum kindly took a family photo for us.

A couple of the aircraft at this small Museum.

The Evergreen Air and Space Museum ~

DH thought this was cool looking.

Spruce Goose tail from another angle. Abstract Modern Art at it's best, as it towers overhead.

Men were very brave... to have to come home in that during free fall! All manner of impressive.

Rover

One of the Tank photos DH took... I had to play with the photo on this one too. It looks like it should be part of an old War poster.