San Diego Sept 28 - 30

Highlights:
Train Ride Along the Coast
Super Funky Artistic Mexican Dinner
Seeing Cousin's Winn and Anthony's Life
Checking Out Various Neighborhoods
San Diego's Groovy Weather/Plants/Architecture
Visiting a Beach Area Co-op
Coffee In Little Italy
Indianish Vegan Lunch
Sunset at Wind and Surf Beach Sunset - Cars, Surfers, Walkers and Dogs Stopped In Their Tracks to Watch the Sunset, Everyone In Complete Reverence and Amazement and Not Moving For Minutes (wow)
Watching Winn dancing with the waves, completely in her element
Seeing pics of my grandparents and sharing stories of our family

Orange County, CA Sept 26 - 28

Highlights:
Seeing my cousins, uncles, aunts and cousin's kids (so cute)
Getting attacked by the Tape Monster
Tea and dessert at my aunts with a lot of my family, seeing how everyone is growing - Mindy Roger Joanne Ted
The Sun!!!
Newport Beach (so pretty!) - Walking along the ocean with Becky
Raw food at 118 Degrees
Miniture Golfing and Lasar Tag at Camelot with the Cousins and Dave's boys
Getting styled up by Becky
Spaghetti dinner with my cousins
Home grown green beans
Hiking in the hills with Becky and the boys
Becky, David, Seth and Noah waiting for the train with me

Amtrak to Los Angeles, CA Sept 26

Highlights:
Mount Diablo
New Wind Energy Farm
The Weather Was Beautiful in LA

Napa Sept 23 - 25

Highlights:
Seeing the Valley - so lovely!
Seeing the folks - Dad's jokes and Mom's vegan dishes
Seeing Linda and Brook, Kaila and Dakota, Ehlers
Figure Drawing with Melissa
Chatting at the Baker Art Studio
Sushi with Kaila and Dakota
Tea and enjoying Art and Acoustic Guitar with Linda and Brook
Breakfast and Laughs with Linda
Walking around Napa until I couldn't take another step

Portland, OR September 15 - 22

Beloved Portland, OR...
Highlights Include:

Mount Hood giving birth to a radiant full moon on the drive to Portland

Meeting awesome City Repair Superheroes

Meeting other awesome Superheroes

Tea in the Fairy Tea House

Various ventures about the Villiage Building Convergence projects, city repair projects and other community projects (awesome!)

Neat old Portland houses

Affordable acupuncture

Tea at the Tea Horse at PSU under the Horse's wings, talking with new friends and dancing to Tapwater as the harvest moon rose

Fashion sorting with the fashion police and friends

Breakfast at a Vegan restaurant

Visiting theVilliage Free School

New Renaissance Book Store (2 two story houses full of spiritual books)(awesome)

Sleeping outside

Vienamese and Thai dinners

Superhero party

Seeing water bowls set out for dogs, dogs on buses

Seeing mosaics on garbage containers that kids designed

City Repair Projects - Visiting Dignity Villiage, Tryon Life cohousing, seeing Waldorf female teachers lead their children with beautiful songs, other cohousing, the building reuse center, office walls, floors and cubicles made out of house scraps (doors, windows and details), I love the Divinchi Dragon!, Lighthouse Solar lit poetry bench, front yard cob gazebo with lending library, Hawthorn Hostel's cob gazebo, the sitting areas and community boards at schools, the Neverending Story Goodluck Dragon (Falcor) bench, garage sweat lodges and art spaces, Sunnyside intersection - mandala, tilework, sacred geometry, community board, seeing kids ideas made real, community sweat lodges, the temple, putting horse dung on a cob wall to help preserve it (then linseed oil), covered bus stops, community collaborations, permaculture gardens, raw smoothie, Sellwood share station, book share, community board, Kid's Klubhouse, mosaic and tile art on cob, watching so many people working together to put the teahorse up,

Knowing so many people offer parts of their yard, their garage space, their time and care to make the community better for all.

Meeting and seeing such great people

Six mile bikeride along the river feeling like one mile

Forest Park with Moriah

Walk to Mt. Tabor... intention blessing for the city, country, planet