During a beautiful fall day we traveled the 60 miles from Hansville to Port Angeles and enjoyed a nice picnic looking towards Victoria, BC. That afternoon we drove up to Hurricane Ridge to look over the Olympic Mountains. While there we could hear a herd of elk bugling but we never were able to spot them. It was a wonderful day and so close to home. Later in the month we started our road trip by going down the west side of the Hood Canal. We stopped at a rest area and chuckled at the huge sign proclaiming NO HUNTING! Then we were shocked to see a whole herd of elk in the rest area. Of course we stopped in Vancouver to visit with Brett, Kasey and Cecilia as well as Roy and Suzanne before going on to Eugene for my treatment and to help with projects at Ray’s Mom. Then we traveled on south to Modesto, California to visit with Nancy’s sister, Jan and family.
Diane Barr and Ed Hiramoto in Las Vegas
Jo Hiramoto feeding us well...
Our mini road trip then took us to Las Vegas and we enjoyed staying with Jo and Ed Hiramoto. Of course we were able to meet Kitti Schmitz but an added treat was seeing Diane Barr who drove up from Phoenix to make it a mini-DoDDS reunion of Mannheim people. After a wonderful four days it was time to reverse our trip. We enjoyed great weather the whole trip and while in Modesto we took advantage of the weather and fall colors to have niece Tara take some pictures. In Eugene we had a very nice family Thanksgiving dinner with Mom, Gary, Anne and Emily. Of course we again stopped in Vancouver to see Brett, Kasey and Cecilia as well as Roy and Suzanne. We returned to Hansville and got busy doing yard work and started planning for a busy December.
