I thought I’d post a few photos to get us caught up to the present. First, the synopsis:  since Sept 11, our last post aside from the special bulletin from Tenerife, John and I returned from the Pacific northwest, Miles settled into school out there, and we’ve been able to…

Myself, Robert, Stuart, Ronan and Conal all went to Secondary School (High School) together, and while over the years we’ve kept in contact, and occassionally met up in groups of two or three, its been over 30 years since we were all together. So this year, with us all turning…

We had another delightful experience in the Pacific Northwest, and that was meeting up with Alex and David, friends of ours from John’s PhD program who have been living in Portland for over 15 years now. We met them for dinner in Portland only to discover that we were all…

We went for dinner at Roseanna’s Cafe again and walked on the beach afterwards. A land artist made a very cool spiral out of seagrass, kicking off this blog post dedicated to amazing things seen on the beach! Remember when we mentioned that there’s a tunnel through this huge rock…

Saturday we set out to explore 2 of the three scenic capes in the area, Cape Lookout and Cape Kiwanda. On our way south to Cape Lookout, we first stopped at a salt maker, the Jacobsen Salt Co. Not much to say but they harvest sea salt and process it…

After leaving Lewis & Clark in Portland, we drove west to the coast. We rented a house near Oceanside, Oregon, which is a seaside town in the southern part of the northern coast. The Oregon coast is broken down, in our Fodor’s book anyway, into northern, central and southern coasts,…

On our second day at Lewis & Clark we had lunch with Miles in the dining hall, visited his room again and got some decorations up, attended a session with a professor, and also attended the opening convocation ceremony and a family picnic afterwards. First, on the way out of…

Miles had a great time on his outdoors trip to the coast and arrived back at Lewis and Clark on Tuesday. He had time to get partially settled in and meet up with new friends, then we flew out to Portland on Wednesday for orientation activities. Miles’s residence hall is…

The Chicago Triathlon was scheduled for Sunday and in some ways the weather was looking way better than last year. The air and lake temperature were in the low 70s, clear skies, low humidity. However, the lake was very choppy and for the first time in the Chicago Tri history,…

Miles headed off for college today, where he’ll start with a weeklong trip along the Oregon coast with new classmates. It was an early morning after a late night, hence the tired faces! We’ll have more to report when we go out to Portland next week to join miles for…