On Our Way to “Oldchella”

The Line Up

“They aren’t getting any younger, and neither are we,” said Kathy as she looked at a Facebook post while we were on our way to Ashland last May.  “Let’s do it!” we impulsively decided.

She was referring to the rock stars performing at Desert Trip, the big three-day rock concert at the Coachella Music Festival near Indio, CA.  Mick Jagger, one of the performers has dubbed it “Oldchella.”  He’s right, the average age of the performers is 72.  The Stones kick it off Friday evening. 

So tomorrow we’re hitching up the Airstream and taking the backroads to southern CA.  We’re spending tomorrow night on the Metolius River at Camp Sherman, our favorite Oregon campground, where we’ve camped every summer for the past 20 years.  (We missed it earlier this year, and we don't want to break our 20-year streak).  Then on the way we’ll visit some of her Assistance League friends in Klamath Falls, and hike and camp in Sequoia and Joshua Tree National Parks. 

The Saha's, Rotarians from India

Although we’re eager to hit the road again, it’s been nice to stay home for a couple of months.  We’ve both had a lot of work to do, both for business and our community commitments.  And we managed to have some fun here and there working out, eating out, and hanging out.  We hosted a delightful couple from the New Delhi area of India, rode bikes, visited wineries, and I got a backpacking trip to Mt. Jefferson with my good friend, Ken VanOsdol.  

View from our Mt. Jefferson wilderness camsite

Kathy led some workshops in Dallas, TX for the national Assistance League convention.  She finished her 8+ years of service with the organization, first as Finance Chair, then heading up Technology.  Check out the new website she just launched for the Salem-Keizer chapter of Assistance League.

She's happy to be home, and I'm happy to have her home!

We’ll post a couple of dispatches from the road.  Hopefully we’ll come back with our hearing intact, but probably with a few less brain cells.

 In case you missed them, here is a link to more photos of our road trip with some additional commentary.  Many of them weren’t in our previous blog.  You don’t have to be on Facebook to see them; simply click on this link.  

Until then, rock on!