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!
We’ve moved on
But not very far. 2017 Summer Trip Map Lake Pleasant RV Park. Not so far that we couldn’t go back to Christie’s house for dinner again. Different mix this time. Brother Tom, Andy, and Andy’s dad Ron.
Kyle and Cameron.
Bella.
Christie.
Kathy and Andy’s sister Lisa.
Judy and Andy’s mom Gail.
Not only that, before we even left Christie’s house, we got a nice long visit with Ken Aitken.
I think we’ve caught up with everyone we can on the north side.
Kyle and Cameron. Bella. Christie. Kathy and Andy’s sister Lisa. Judy and Andy’s mom Gail. Not only that, before we even left Christie’s house, we got a nice long visit with Ken Aitken. I think we’ve caught up with everyone we can on the north side. Our ferry didn’t stop at Friday Harbor yesterday
But that didn’t stop us from asking a deck hand how he would have gotten all the cars pointed the right direction if they had made that intermediate stop. He said if they can leave one of the side ramps open, they can have boarding cars drive around one side of the boat and come back the other side, pointed the same direction as everybody else. If it’s a big truck, they can have it back on. If it’s somebody big that can’t back up (like us), they’ve gone so far as to unload any vehicles that need to get off, take the boat back out, turn it around, re-dock it, and then load the additional vehicle. Our campsite at Andy and Christie’s.
The view would be even nicer if not for the Washington and British Columbia forest fire smoke.
As a bonus tonight, Nephew Bill came by for dinner.
Excellent to catch up with him. So we took a picture of too many people to cram into a selfie.
The big guy on the right is Kyle, Christie’s oldest. Cameron was off at a swim meet.
The view would be even nicer if not for the Washington and British Columbia forest fire smoke. As a bonus tonight, Nephew Bill came by for dinner.Excellent to catch up with him. So we took a picture of too many people to cram into a selfie.The big guy on the right is Kyle, Christie’s oldest. Cameron was off at a swim meet.