From Portland with love!

Hello again! As I write, Jeremy and I are spending some time on the front porch of the hostel where we are staying. He is playing chess with our new buddy Boris, whose computer I am using to write this little update. It is a bit slow, but hopefully I willl be able to cover all of the big stuff!

Well, since the last post, we have been to:

• Lake Tahoe
• Mt. Lassen (a volcano)
• Mt. Shasta (another volcano)
• Crater Lake (a big volcano with a lake in it)
• Portland, OR

Wow!

Tahoe was wonderfully relaxing, and we had a great time chatting with Jim, our camp host. Then we went to Mt. Lassen, which still has active vents... its last eruption was in 1914, fairly recent in comparison to some of the others. We actually climbed to the top of Lassen, which was tough, but well worth the hike... it had awesome views of Mt. Shasta, which was 100 miles away, and it had tons of snow on it!

OK, switching to a faster computer... more to follow!