May '09 - still hosting

Well let's see... since the last entry (painfully long time between blog entries), I have been to Sunset Bay S.P (near Coos Bay, OR), Fort Stevens S.P. - twice - Back to Nehalem Bay S.P. (twice), and I'm in my second month at South Beach S.P. (near Newport, OR). It really is good to get on the road after a month or two... it's still like going on my next vacation trip to my next vacation destination. I'll be taking the month of June off this year. It's the only month I'm not hosting at the parks. I plan to see the family in Union Gap, and also take a trip up to see a very good friend of my youth, Jeff Louden (Ham Radio buddy), and who knows what else.

 Jeff sent me an email one day a couple of months ago saying that he had the itch to get back into Amateur Radio, and has done so in a big way. We are radioing each other every day, just like we did when you were kids and first got our ham licences (1963). I've been busy putting up antennas. The parks are fine with it, as they understand the valuable contribution that hams have always made in times of urgent need and emergencies when communications by any other means have been very difficult or impossible. Of course the daily activities of the hams are always very interesting and productive.

We've been through a couple of really significant storms in the last few days. It is said to be quite unusual weather for this time of the year, but out here on the coast of the Pacific Ocean, it seems like normal stuff to me. And right now it's sunny bright. It doesn't take much sun for me to forget all about the rain.

Gee... maybe I'll do this again. I might even have enought ambition to post some pictures.