Politics

 We have a presidential contender with more celebrity than sense.  He is the frontrunner for one of the political parties.  Apparently his campaign can’t be slowed by lack of logic.  No matter what he says, he’s still the frontrunner by double digits.  What if he were actually elected?  He could throw the entire world into chaos. How do we protect the country from this landslide?  We need a solution; an opposing candidate with just as much celebrity as Trump, but less scary.  One with more cerebral horsepower.  Let’s see.  He’d have to be big.  Really big.  And bored.  Nothing else going on right now. That’s it!  Draft Jon Stewart.  Donald Trump versus Jon Stewart for President of the United States.  If the campaign is going to be more about entertainment than policy, let’s make it the best it can be. And what the heck.  Jon Stewart might even have a sane policy or two in his pocket. 

But if you try sometimes

  It’s getting better.  A spot across the road from us opened up.  We moved over this morning.  We even fit in this one a little better. Now we have 50 amp service and our satellite dish can see the sky.  Excellent.  We’re getting what we need. And then we got a nice visit with some of Brother Bill’s branch of the family.  Jon and Amy; Jake, Cody, Linda Sue, and Delilah.  We thought Barbara was going to be there too, but she was a no-show.  It turns out the reason for her no-show was that her boyfriend proposed to her that morning.  I guess that counts as a better offer. It was a nice warm day.  We hung around outside in the shade  …until there wasn’t enough shade left. But we could move inside to the air conditioning. Nice family-time.  

You can’t always get what you want

 We waited until the weekend to drive back to the Seattle area, so we would miss most of the traffic on Interstate 5.  Ha ha.  This is the Pacific Northwest.  Traffic always sucks on Interstate 5. It took longer than planned, but we made it to our destination, the Majestic Mobile Manor RV Park in Puyallup.  Ha ha again.  It’s not exactly majestic.  We don’t exactly fit in our spot either. They had a 50 amp site for us, but it was smaller than this one.  They’re nice here, but spatially challenged.  We’ve got 30 amps for tonight and no satellite television; our satellite dish can’t see the south sky through the trees.  But the view; the view is amazing.  We can see Mount Majestic from our windshield. Well….  It might look like the back side of a landfill to you, …. but hey, you can’t always get what you want. It’s so bad here it’s almost good… and that’s life on the road. 2015 summer trip map 

While we were in Bend

 We got to visit with Rick and Sheri. We know them from South Texas and southern Arizona in the winter. This is our first visit with them in their summer habitat.  Who knew they had such a cool house? It’s outside of Terrebonne, with a view of Crooked Creek Canyon.  While we were there, a Lazuli Bunting visited their feeder.