But we got a better site
And Henry and the moose are getting along just fine.
And Henry and the moose are getting along just fine. Bend
Now we’re in the middle of Oregon 2017 Summer Trip Map We’re here to get a couple things done at Beaver Coach Sales on Monday. There are lots of other kinds of shops for motorhome stuff in Bend too. We’re going to check tomorrow to see if anyone wants to put a Sirius Radio in the bus for us. Eleven days until the eclipse; and we’re very close to where the totality is going to be. We’ve heard on the news that Wyoming, with a population of about 500,000 is expecting another 500,000 for the eclipse. Oregon is a expecting a million. Reservations at parks are hard to get. We’re at Crown Villa for three days, but we’ll have to move each day. After that, we’ll be in the parking lot at Beaver Coach Sales until they’re through with us.
Baby steps
We’re working our way south. 2017 Summer Trip Map Still on pace to be in Bend, OR by the 14th. No birding news. The pace of birding, and new birds for the year have slowed considerably. Current count 440 and holding…
I wonder
We’ve read that we in the U.S. spend on our military, roughly the same amount as what all other countries in the world combined spend on theirs. (Even if that stat is a little off, there is no doubt we spend fantastically more than any other country.) We have the world’s most awesome military. We may not have the world’s most awesome infrastructure though. Do we have the best educational standards? Roads, bridges, and building maintenance? Mass transit? Electrical grid? I remember the refrain from an old economics textbook. Guns or butter. You get to choose how to spend your money. Sometimes you have to choose between the two. So I wonder. If we didn’t spend all that money on the military, would it really be available to spend on making our lives better? Could we have the most advanced roads, bridges, buildings, communications, education, and mass transit on the planet? Or if we stopped spending on guns, would there be no butter; is military spending such a powerful economic engine, that we can’t afford to stop? If we didn’t spend any more money on the military, would we just fall into recession and collapse? We’ve moved. We’re in Centralia, WA. 2017 Summer Trip Map
Lake Pleasant RV Park
It’s a nice natural park right in the middle of an urban area.
With a good windshield view.
And one more north-end person to visit with. Suzanne!