Jour 3, Quelque part dans l'état de Missouri. Darcy est le conducteur d'un voiture de notre amie, Ea, jusque au Dallas. Texas où Ea fassiat les cours.
17 Fevrier, 1975: Le jour est finalement arrivé et nous avons commencé notre voyage vers l'état d'Oregon. Le titre que je suis mis sur mon cahier des notes de voyage est "Oregon Bound." (Une phrase de les pioneers) Nous avons mis tout en order le jour avant et nous somme parti dans les heures très tot,
Jour 3, Quelque part dans l'état de Missouri. Darcy est
le conducteur d'un voiture de notre amie, Ea, jusque au Dallas.
Texas où Ea fassiat les cours.
Même endroit. David et sa voiture "Sputzcat."
Nous condissions ver 800 lm chaque jour. Après notre départ
nous sommes resté dans une camping ground en Pennsylvania
et puis Fox Ridge State park en Illinois. Both times we simply
slept in our cars since it had been too dark and too cold to set
up a tent. On Day 3 we made it to Oklahoma and spent a night in
a motel.
Two thousand miles and a week later we are in northern California.
Not too far from the Oregon boarder.
No pictures from our first days in Oregon, but here we are a couple
weeks later at the Oregon coast near Florence. My first view of
the Pacific.
We rented a room in a house and then rented this half of a duplex
in Springfield, OR. We had absolutely no furniture. Shortstop
had never been an outdoor cat, but she started to enjoy it a little
while we lived here and even caught a grass snake.
As I said; we had almost no furniture but an enornous livingroom.
I moved the couple small tables we did have and set up my camping
gear for this scene that I labeled "the Great Indoors."
Darcy at the Coburg hills. This area became one of our favorite
hiking spots
Most interesting thing about this picture is that I shaved off
my mustashe and almost immediately started growing it back. The
sheet in the background is something we made to hang on the bedroom
wall.
Crator lake, May 1975. There was close to 12 feet of snow in the
parking area. The reflection was magnificent.
At some point I decided we should get Oregon license plates. Here
I am carefully cleaning the new plates.
When it seemed that work was going to be impossible to find, I
signed up to be a Big Brother, thinking it might help me meet
people and lead to other opportunites. (What we now call "networking")
David and his little brother Randy Pacheko.
Canoeing on Fall Creek Resevoir June 1975. One of several resevoirs
that we frequented often. This is possibly the last pictures we
took in Oregon. Nathan arrived in July and within a week of his
arrival we decided it was time to go.
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