Up Up And Away

Pretty slow around here today.  The reason being that none of us slept very well last night due to the train tracks right next to the campground. There was only about a two hour period when there weren't any trains blowing by. It seemed like every time I got back to sleep another engineer played us a tune on his whistle. So, that's why I napped most of the day.

Jim kept busy this morning.  He cleaned all ten air conditioning vents and washed the windshield while Kathe just sat on the sofa sticking a needle back and forth into a canvas.  As I said, I was napping!

Around lunch time they decided to take a drive up to the town of Hood River to do some sight seeing. It's a cute little town that overlooks the Columbia Gorge and is known as the Windsurfing Capital of the World. After enjoying lunch and a glass of Oregon wine they drove down to the beach to watch the windsurfers and kite surfers. It was a Friday afternoon and the beach was crowded with all kinds of people and colorful kites and sails. It was hard to capture the excitement in pictures taken from the beach.


Well, I haven't heard a train whistle in a while, maybe I should jump into bed early this evening. We have a long drive tomorrow to Yakima, Washington.