2018 Oregon Trip

-
Friday, July 6th2018 marks the start of this year’s annual Shakespeare Pilgrimmage, which over the years has taken an established format, carrying us up the Calfornia and Oregon Coasts, to Portland to see friends and attend the Portland Pen Round-Up, and from there to Ashland for a week in which we will meet up with friends and family and take in no fewer than eight shows at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

Today, Friday, saw us cover a leisurely 200-odd miles up to Little River Inn, just south of Mendocino, one of our regular stopovers.

Since we drive this road so regularly, this year I tried to diverge from the usual seascapes, with only partial success.







Our room with a view

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Out of Scotland, Slowly

-
Image
On Sunday we left Edinburgh, headed for Northumberland and (we thought) York. Now, if someone says England and tourism, your first thoughts do not turn to Newcastle Upon Tyne, which formerly was the county’s largest city, or for that matter to any place in Northumberland. But for many English folk we have talked to, this area is a great treat, as it has become for us. Jim Marshall first put us onto the area, marking out Alnwick, Holy Island and Bamborough on our maps. We took it from there and spent three days prowling the backroads and coming to love the area, enough so that we delayed our trip to York until after our return from Germany, in order to get a bit more time in that corner of England. So, what have we seen and done to warrant such enthusiasm? Our first stop Sunday afternoon was, in truth, still in Scotland, at Preston Mill and Dovecote or as they put it Phantassie Doocot. The mill, which seems to be a locally popular stopping and walking place, was located an easy half m
Read more

A New Consignment

-
Image
 Mostly Pelikans, vintage and modern, with a fine assortment of others. Most pens are in near mint to excellent condition.  I have not yet priced them, but see the attached spreadsheet and, as always feel free to contact me at  rickpropas@comcast.net
Read more