KR's 60th birthday came and gone. So many things came and gone from August 16, the last entry. We weren't sure that day if we were going to take Kurt back to Berkeley. Well, he went. We bought a new mattress on that day. I made fig newtons for the first time that week. Alan came back and we packed Kurt up and drove to Berkeley early on the 19th. Of course had lunch/breakfast at Harris' ranch and braved his apartment on Haste street, just caddy corner from People's Park. Man oh man. His new roommate Kevin was not coming back til Tuesday, and his other house mate, Lilly Pan just graduated but is studying LSAT and is a bit different. There is so much stuff in the apartment from many other tenants that had lived there before, but we didn't know what can be tossed. We had decided to go to Oregon to see the TOTAL ECLIPSE of the sun, so we drove two more hours to the motel in Williams, California. We had dinner at Tacos La Barca. IT WAS HOT HOT HOT HOT and HOT.
Sunday morning we had a quick breakfast and started driving to Sweet Home, Oregon, just off of I 5, a little north of Eugene, Oregon. We passed Brownsville, and man oh man, there were what looked like THOUSANDS of campers, cars, trucks, you name it out in the distance and we see workers directing traffic out to this giant field. There is a MUSIC festival in Brownsville. We keep going and find the lake and Rocky and Grace Kimura all set up at campsite 19 right next to Foster Lake.
It was a beautiful site, and all totally full, although at least two sites had no shows. You never know where you are going to be eight months after you book a camp site. Grace cooked this great corn beef and cabbage and we ate, then took the seat out of the van and slept in the back.
The next morning shines bright and early. We get up and walked around Foster Lake and the hatchery where there are little trouts and the streams that feed into Foster lake was so interesting. Of course, we started setting up for the viewing of the eclipse, which the total was about 10.21 am. Well, it was worth the drive. The sun started to be covered by the moon, and the temperature dropped and it got really dark. There were about two minutes of darkness, and then the light started up again.
Right after it happened, we started packing up and driving OUT of the area, thinking the traffic was going to be so so bad. It was rather busy on I 5. Our next stop was Burney Falls near Mt. Shasta. It was such an amazing water fall. But the night we slept in the van was agonizing. It was so so hot, that we did not open the car door because of the mosquitoes, finally KR turned the car on and ran the A/C for around five minutes before we can fall asleep. And Gracie does not help with the Hot Hot body of hers. And the shower is 25 cents for two minutes. Of course, I only needed one quarter.
Next day we pack up and drive down to Pleasanton. We stay with Rob Brent, and his wife, Mary Zane. They have a big house, next to a lake, and we had a murphy bed, the first. One of his sons was home, I think it was either Lukas or Kurtis. Yup, they have a Kurt too.
Early Wednesday we drove home. What a long long drive.
