I read today that flight attendants will not drink coffee or tea on a flight and we probably shouldn't either. It's made with the plane's tap water and those flight attendants know it is NOT good water. The tanks are rarely flushed, never mind cleaned. Yeah, gross stuff down there.
I read a couple of years ago that flight attendants consider Coke and Diet Coke the most troublesome drinks to pour. Apparently they're the most caffeinated and take them the longest because of waiting for the bubbles to die down. Once I read that I decided to forego asking for my typical Diet Coke.
Yep, I opted for coffee instead.
Now what??
It's 10' wide and 20' long, ample room for the Blazer. It's a bit over 6' tall at the eaves and about 7.5' at the peak. For $100 (Harbor Freight) I should have done this a long time ago; it would have saved the teardrop from its terminal moisture damage. I'm still irritated about that. Now it will save the Blazer from damage to the paint from the fir tree sap.
A week from tomorrow we'll leave on our camping/reunion trip and I'm looking forward to it - mostly. It will be our last trip with the teardrop, which I'll disassemble when we get home. Then I'll start work building the storage box that will go on the frame and hold our gear when we go back to tent camping next summer.
We've already made some tentative plans for campgrounds we want to revisit.
We'll stay next Wednesday night at Valley of the Rogue State Park just south of Grants Pass, but that's mostly just because the drive to Henry Cowell State Park just up into the hills from Santa Cruz is too far to go in a single day. We'll pull into Valley of the Rogue late afternoon (a 3-hour drive) and leave early in the morning for the eight hour drive to Henry Cowell. It will take longer than that with stops for gas and food.
Henry Cowell is in the redwoods and beeeautiful. It's about an hour north of Prunedale and we used to make day trips there when the boys were little. We'll hike the trails among those giant trees, maybe make a drive down into Santa Cruz to see the crazy Californians, and then go to church in Prunedale on Sunday.
I was the pastor there for 7 wonderful years. Great people, great location, and all kinds of opportunity for ministry. Many of those people have spread hither and yon since the early 80's. We've designated this as a kind of reunion Sunday. I'll preach and then we'll have a BYO picnic out on the field afterward. We're really looking forward to reconnecting with some we haven't seen in 45 years, while others we've seen a few times since then. We'll have a great time together.
Monday we'll head back home. We haven't decided if we'll try to press through, try to find a camp ground along the way, or snag a cheap hotel room for the night.
It will be the Blazer's maiden voyage of any significant length, the damaged teardrop's last trip of any length, and those two things have me a little concerned. This is also our first camping trip since we moved to Oregon.
This week marked the opening of the new Yogi Tea plant. We pass it on the way into town and have watched it rise from an empty field over the last two years.
The guy on the news said they built it from the ground up. Is there any other way???
Apparently Yogi Tea is a pretty big deal in the tea business and sells worldwide. It was started by an Indian guru who had a commune and his name was Yogi Something-Or-other. Hence, Yogi Tea.
They said once production is fully ramped up they'll produce 1.6 million tea bags each week. Yikes!
92 this afternoon. Back into the upper 80s tomorrow. Those few degrees make a big difference.
Omarosa is this week's Stormy Daniels. And she, too, has learned how to milk 15 minutes into a good half hour. The press's insatiable appetite makes that increasingly easy.
And it occurs to me that while society readily judges a prominent individual's behavior of decades ago based on the social standards of today, that revisionist history has its limits.
See: Pres. John F. Kennedy.
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