6 December 09 – 12 December 09

Cleaning up the misses from the last post. I thought my description lines would be under the pictures, but you know what happens when you assume. So here goes:
1 Boat ramp
2 The drive to water(Lake Shasta)
3 More drive to water
4 My girlfriend at Donner Summit, CA. We have a slide(somewhere) of her in about the same place sitting on the hood of a Carmen Ghia taken 45 years ago. The big difference was the road – it's new now- and the amount of snow. Then they used blowers to clear the road and it was two lanes. The snow was piled about 15 – 20 feet high. For those of you who are automobile challenged: Carmen Ghia made by Volkswagon.
5 We are parked in a rest area in Utah.
We went out for a drive and walk after church. Before we stopped and took some pictures at a Yurok tribe ceremonial grounds we had a bobcat and cub walk across the road. No camera close enough. It is better now weather wise – in the 50's daytime and 40's nighttime.
Keeping up with having no where to be and all day to get there at times is a real chore. We have spent our week looking over the ocean, walking on the beach, taking pictures, and shopping. It seems like we are on the road everyday, but it hasn't been totally bad. It's about an hour to Southern Oregon and 30 minutes to Crescent City, CA.
We had an unplanned trip to Grants Pass on monday as snail mail was a little slow. Christmas I guess, we blamed it on that. While we are in Oregon we always make it a point to fill the gas tank. The difference is $0.40 and it is worth the time even on half a tank. Arnold and his taxes will kill us before we get out of CA. For those of you complaing about sales tax – how does 8.5% sound, on the other hand OR does NOT have sales tax.
Those that know we like fish, or any kind of seafood, will be glad to know I have found something I like as well as salmon. In the last week we have had crab for dinner twice. You can buy a whole cooked and cleaned crab for $10, or $5 apiece. It is a little messy getting it out of the shell, but that is part of the challenge. If you want to cook and clean it yourself it sells for $2.95 a pound or they cook it for $4.95 a pound and will clean it for tips. Cleaning a crab takes all of 2 minutes.

Pictures:
1 Redwoods on walk
2 Elk for Pastor(taken from 15 feet)
3 Harris Beach
4 Yurok house with another behind
5 Yurok Ceremonial grounds – taken right after the Bobcat spotting. That is frost on the seats and roof.

We miss you all at Windham. Found a good church and Bible study in Crescent City.