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16 years ago
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This is kind of an update journal, mostly because I had a most unexpected occurrence last week.
Right now I'm on a vacation of sorts, up in Oregon visiting my sweetie for a few weeks. The trip up turned into a busy run, first with a plan to stop over and see my friend in Sacramento to break the trip into two parts. Then that was amended to leaving a day early so I could spend Saturday at Laguna Seca with 20 other R32 owners and other VW-heads. And then at the absolute last minute, an invite to Pixar's 9th annual Motorama car show and BBQ. So much for a nice, relaxed trip up to Oregon!
Not long after arriving, my sweetie and I went to Family Camp. It was awesome. Out in the middle of private forest, with a creek (although a city boy like me considers it a river), cabins, meeting halls, campfire circle, swimming hole... it was a really nice place. We elected to bring a tent and sleep in that, so we got the outdoor camping experience. That's something I haven't done in a long time.
There were various activities and workshops throughout the week. I did field biology where we looked for rough-skinned newts and crawdads down at the river, a hike through some new property that the camp acquired, singing, leather working... all kinds of good things. Plus there was quiet time and free time to do your own thing (I mostly napped).
Two of the workshops resulted in things I'm going to post up here: some henna tattooing and (quite unexpectedly) a creative writing workshop. I wasn't sure what to expect in the workshop, but I ended up turning out some stuff I really like, and that I'm going to share. I shared it with the people in the workshop, so why not with my friends here?
I also got some more journal ideas... so keep your eyes open for those too.
Cheers!
Right now I'm on a vacation of sorts, up in Oregon visiting my sweetie for a few weeks. The trip up turned into a busy run, first with a plan to stop over and see my friend in Sacramento to break the trip into two parts. Then that was amended to leaving a day early so I could spend Saturday at Laguna Seca with 20 other R32 owners and other VW-heads. And then at the absolute last minute, an invite to Pixar's 9th annual Motorama car show and BBQ. So much for a nice, relaxed trip up to Oregon!
Not long after arriving, my sweetie and I went to Family Camp. It was awesome. Out in the middle of private forest, with a creek (although a city boy like me considers it a river), cabins, meeting halls, campfire circle, swimming hole... it was a really nice place. We elected to bring a tent and sleep in that, so we got the outdoor camping experience. That's something I haven't done in a long time.
There were various activities and workshops throughout the week. I did field biology where we looked for rough-skinned newts and crawdads down at the river, a hike through some new property that the camp acquired, singing, leather working... all kinds of good things. Plus there was quiet time and free time to do your own thing (I mostly napped).
Two of the workshops resulted in things I'm going to post up here: some henna tattooing and (quite unexpectedly) a creative writing workshop. I wasn't sure what to expect in the workshop, but I ended up turning out some stuff I really like, and that I'm going to share. I shared it with the people in the workshop, so why not with my friends here?
I also got some more journal ideas... so keep your eyes open for those too.
Cheers!
Also, thats a LOT of R's!!