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Tuesday, October 21, 2008,
We woke up and found breakfast waiting for us. We had a variety of cereals, tea, grapefruit, and juice, and Joanna had made homemade bread also. Delicious. We ate plenty then went outdoors to play. Tristan showed us how to launch coke bottles by pumping them full of air. They shot real high. Great science experiment. The kids played on the swing and we took pictures. Finally it was time to go. We will miss them. Hopefully, we will see them again before too long. Before we left we had to see Uncle Herman and Aunt Janet. He gave us apples and some money for the trip, which was helpful. Then we went to see Janet at the corner store where she works. We talked a good while before we had to leave. Everyone has been so good to us. I really hope we can return before too long. Oh, an Amish family was hitching up their wagon when we arrived and were dressed in their distinct garb, which was very amusing for the children. We managed to take some stealth photos before they left. After leaving Uncle Herman, we stopped at KD's Backroads, a restaurant in Salem where Uncle Herman's paintings are displayed on the walls for sale. He had about 30 pictures. Very nice. On the way toward Colorado, we heard Michael Savage for the first time in a long while. He was commenting on the upcoming election between McCain and Obama. It is always amusing and educational to hear him talk. He kept referring to Obama by his initials: B.O. "If we get B.O. in office, God help us." We stopped in Walmart to get a long overdue oil change, then went to Little Caesar's for pizza. I got that backwards. Pizza was first, then Walmart. It started raining in the evening, so we had to cover the trailer with one of the tarps to keep the panniers dry. It kept raining through the night until we stopped to sleep.