June 30, Thurs.–1.2 miles–Oregon F

Thursday, June 30th, 2005

Thurs. June 30   Miles today: 1.2    Total so far: 873.5         Oregon Section F

There was no rush to do anything this morning, so we enjoyed our nice quiet camp in the forest.  I decided to do some writing in the dining hall before breakfast, but when I got there, a huge delivery truck had just brought several pallets of food, including frozen stuff that needed to be put away ASAP.  So I volunteered to help, and in the process got a good look at the youth camp kitchen.  I ws totally impressed.  They7 make their own bread from scratch, for example.  We had another awesome breakfast, then had more time to just relax on the beach with my Bible to read, and watch the kids sailing on Big Lake. 

After lunch, we packed up our camp so we’d be ready to go with our daughter from Corvallis when she arrived.  And when she did, surprise, surprise!  We hardly recognized her…she’d dyed her hair blonde, just for fun.  (Normally she’s a very dark brunette!)  We went with her to the town of Sisters, where Bill got new gloves, and we all got ice cream, followed by dinner at “Bronco Billy’s” steak house, because poor Bill was dying for a steak after so much trail food, and then all the vegetarian food at the Youth Camp!  We had a great time talking and visiting, since we don’t get to see each other very often. Our daughter was in the Marine Corps for 4 years, after she finished high school and a year of college.  Then she got a degree in accounting and worked in that field for several years, till she decided she’d rather be doing something to help people more directly.  That’s how she ended up getting into her “new field” of pharmacy.  She’s really good at math, and pharmacy is a math-heavy discipline.  So now she’s back in college, at her own expense, working part time, and pursuing a doctorate in pharmacy. 

It was starting to get late, but on the way back to the Camp, I stopped at a grocery store to get some bleach so I could try to disinfect our Platypus drinking tubes, which had been turning pink–not a good thing!  Our daughter was horrified (Germs!  Germs!) that we’d been using them in such a state. Then we went to a picnic area that had water so I could make a dilute solution to rinse out the tubes.  That done, our daughter dropped us off at the Youth Camp parking lot, and we headed back to the PCT.  We’d only done a bit over a mile before the sun went down, so we just stopped and camped in the woods.

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