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Thursday, 9 August 2018

Last full day in Oregon

Still confined to quarters here - no sign of this smoke moving soon. Here's this morning's Air Quality Index for this region:


The red "181" index (Unhealthy) is sitting right on top of Grants Pass.

Never mind - need some time to pack. Got to squeeze some additional stuff in - 2 new pairs of shoes,  3 books and a few second hand vinyl albums - it's going to be tight. Jo's got the Moose Munch and t-shirts as extras so it'll be tight for her too.

We've had two family birthdays in the last week. Last Friday, Cade turned 18 and as soon as he got back to Oregon on Saturday, he dashed off to the tattooist and got what he says is going to be the first of many "tats". Look out for photos - to be fair, it's fairly tasteful and it's on his collar bone so not generally visible when he's fully dressed. (18 is the minimum age for getting a tattoo here, in case you wondered).

On Sunday, it was Miller's 5th birthday. When Jo and I got to our hotel room in Portland on Saturday night (Sunday in Oz), Jo and I made up a quick "happy birthday" greeting for him. We got it wrong a couple of times:

https://youtu.be/5ueqZGcjDeo

before finally getting it right:

https://youtu.be/3YoISFikwZY

Feeling a bit frustrated from lack of any kind of outdoor activity recently, I decided to risk a very short afternoon ride yesterday (Wednesday), but I took the precaution of wearing a face mask that Lucy provided:




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