Road Trip!

We drove down to the Bay area on Friday to visit our daughter, and got back last night. It was great to see her again. When, oh when, are we going to have Star Trek transporters? Some random observations:

Driving through Klamath Falls we saw plumes of smoke or something all along the lake, like a series of vortices. On closer inspection, they turned out to be clouds of insects. ugh. Oh, and by the way, Klamath Falls has no Klamath Falls. From what I was told they built a dam about a century ago that changed the water flow.

It was 112 degress in Redding as we drove through. Sizzzzz

Remember when you'd see someone walking down the street talking to themselves and gesturing, and you'd figure they weren't quite right? Then cellphones became popular and you couldn't tell the wackos from cellphoners. We were in a mall the other day sitting next to a guy who was gesturing and talking to himself. He had a Bluetooth earpiece in his ear. After a while, though, I came to believe that the earpiece wasn't even turned on. Now the self-talkers are wearing camoflage!

The thing I like about driving into the Bay area is that the speed limit was 70 MPH, and everybody was driving faster than that. The thing I hate about driving in the Bay area is that traffic is so bad the freeway speeds are lucky to be 35 MPH.

Coming home, Connie and I were both thrilled to be back in the big trees and clean air. We love Central Oregon.

At six o'clock this morning I was awakened by a house-shaking BOOM! Quite a thunderstorm we had. From flash to thunder was less than a few seconds, meaning the lightning was right here. Must be Monday.


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