Kalama-tous First Day August 27th marked the beginning of a new phase in our lives. Two years earlier we'd reunited the family so our two sons, born 14 years apart, could get to know each other. We'd moved from Australia to Portland, Oregon, where our older son Sky, the muso, was living, and consequently our younger son Lucien did his last two years of high school at Grant High School, while we all shared a house at NE 28th and Skidmore. Now the house was breaking up. Lucien chose to fly back to Australia and begin his adult life there, Sky found an apartment with another muso, and Phil and I were setting out on long-awaited trip through the Pacific Northwest, focused largely on the Canadian Rockies. There were big questions ahead: How would our lives
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