On the way to Corvallis,..

I am really on may way!  First stop, Corvallis for Mom's Weekend at OSU.   Beginning odometer reading, 146075.4  It's OFFICIAL... my new way of life has begun :)

So glad I took two days to get there.  I took it easy.  The first night I stayed in the Walmart parking lot in Bend.

The next day, my first project was to get a new music sound system in the van since I seem to have lost the face plate of the one I put in previously.  I don't necessarily need music all the time, I like the quiet, but I enjoy listening to local radio while I am traveling and have some good memories down through the years of farmer's reports and other local interest tidbits.



After three hours, I couldn't get it to work.  I would have been really pleased with myself if I could have, but since the cigarette lighter and the mirror adjust on the console isn't working, I think it is really a fuse somewhere.  Because my van has this custom interior lighting package on it, the maze of wires and fuses in the underbelly is a rat's nest.  I will see if my son can help me with it.

After I left out of Bend, I saw this artful garden on the right side of the highway out of the corner of my eye, at Tumalo Junction.  I went a ways before I turned around and went back.  This is what this adventure is all about, right?  Stopping and taking the time to see things you wouldn't normally have the time to stop for.

My tour through the TAW Gallery was very enjoyable and it calmed me down from the angst I had previously encountered with the stereo.  I loved the felting and the glass fusion.  They give classes there and I would really like to experience some of them.  I hope I will be able to find out more about the felting online because I thought little pieces on notecards would be neat.  The picture of the glass does not do it justice at all... you will have to see some for yourself sometime.





A historical sign I found along my journey today:

And then I stopped at Shea Point on Foster Lake and read this sign on the bathroom...

I read it two or three times.  It's perhaps comforting to know that other people can have bad days also.

:)