Geocaching Cat= GeoCat

Received package of travel bugs, geocoins and geocache containers.
The cat took time inspecting each item, then decided it was time to nap before I went geocaching.




I received 2 of the following geocoin. 1 will travel with me. The other will be released down the road somewhere:

Peter Iredale

Went out to the coast to play Army for another week.
This is the Peter Iredale. It ran aground almost a century ago. It continually is buried and unburied in sand by the ocean.

Birthday

I had 2 sisters and a friend from college come out to visit for my birthday.
Saw the Japanese Gardens. One sister tried sushi for the first time.
Saw the popular waterfalls in the Gorge. Ate at Kennedy School, ate Ethiopian, went to a chocolate fest where we got sugar highs and had several shots of sake.

Snowy Coastal Mountains

I had to drive out to the coast to play army for the week. Below is the picture I took while going across the Coastal Mountains.
It was too cloudy/foggy to see out to Mt St Helens, but apparently on clear days there's an amazing view of the mountain from this spot. The clouds touching the trees made it amazing enough for me. :-)

APOLLO

Apollo is an epic, multimedia examination of post WWII America which explores the birth of the U.S. space program, its employment of former-Nazi rocket scientists, and their surprising intersection with the Civil Rights Movement. Using the U.S. mission to the moon as a symbol of our country’s greatness, Apollo probes deep into the question: what did we sacrifice to become the America we are today? And was it worth it? Through a kaleidoscopic array of theatrical methods (movement, text, video projection, music), Keystone reveals the costs and ambiguities of human aspiration and progress.

Pacific Coast

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Went out to the mouth of the Columbia River. This is waves from the Pacific Ocean crashing against a cliff below the lighthouse. I'll have more pics to blog later.

Lone Fir Cemetery

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This really reminds me of the creepy pictures of ancestors my father has. I've got other pics from the Lone Fir Cemetery that I should post.

Lone Fir Cemetery has 25,000 graves of which around 10,000 do not have grave stones or accurate records.

Mossy wall on a sunny day

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Back home they're having negative temperatures. I'm enjoying this 50F sunny weather. This is a moss covered wall in Washington Park.

Walking around downtown

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Firefighter memorial near PGE Park. The fountain and plaza area is covered in fastfood trash.

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Portlandia.
Second largest copper woman in the United States resides on SW 5th Avenue in Portland.

Drill Antics

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Yes, I'm having a tube shoved up my nose.

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I think this picture speaks for itself.