Blogs from Antelope, Oregon, United States, North America

Morning in Oxbow brought pink skies and a balmy 60F. Soon we were honoring our compatriot Rob by roasting bacon on a stick. Mmm good! The ride out of the canyon to Baker City was a great stretch of high speed sweepers and canyon curves. Soon we were ordering breakfast at the Oregon Trail Cafe. Nineteen year old Sandy, who had waited on us at the same table last year, brought us a big helping of humor and buckwheat cakes. Reverend Bill had traveled over 2,500 miles for the buckwheat. It was a primal motive to pass through this Eastern Oregon town. That and the homemade corned beef hash...... We asked if sitting at the same table twice and ordering the same breakfast twice from the same waitress made us "regulars." No, apparently we had to ... read more

So tomorrow morning I will be on my way to Oregon. I will be working at a Young Life camp in Antelope, which is a 4 hour drive from Portland. I am really excited to be going to the west coast. I have only been one time before and that was to visit San Francisco with my parents. I can't wait to be in the mountains of Oregon. At the camp, I will be working the ropes course for three weeks for high school kids. The camp is called Wildhorse Canyon. There is a lot of cool history surrounding the site, because it used to be where a cult was established. It was an Islamic cult led my Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh; you should wikipedia it because there is some really cool information. Anyway, I won't have ... read more