After careful consideration and lots of juggling, requesting time off, moving vacation time around and juggling some more, we think we have established our summer adventure, set for a few weeks of late summer. (Exact dates not being smart to publish out in the WWW, as we don’t want the bad guys to know exactly when to come and strip the mansion of all its rubies and gold and all that… :) –seriously, there is a site called Please Rob Me, that discusses the over-sharing issue…)
Over time, we have had in mind various treks across our somewhat spacious country, with the ultimate destination of Sisters, Oregon forming the route. Unfortunately, in order to do such a trip, we would require, first, prodigious amounts of money.
Next would be prodigious amounts of time, and the time would need to have coincided with a particular date. The reason for this? What, you’ve never HEARD of Sisters? Ok, most people haven’t; quilters have and know exactly the day we would need to descend. Alas, someone on Timmy’s job already claimed that week, and of course the prodigious sums of cash have yet to appear.
Plotting and thinking and breaking up the mega-vacation (we were originally operating on the ‘Well, we’d be SO CLOSE to….’ itinerary that I have for our eventual European jaunt. You know, since we are already in Paris, we can’t leave without going to England. Well, England is SO CLOSE to Ireland and we’ve come all this way….) We came up with a smaller in scale, but still a massive undertaking for two weeks.
We won’t make it to Sisters, or to Vancouver (BC or OR). Mt. St. Helens, McMinnville (where the Spruce Goose resides) will be another year. No Glacier National Park, no Salt Flats or St. Lake City, no Montana wedding (sorry, Jenn!) Next time we can visit Mt. Rushmore, Crazy Horse, The Field of Dreams, and on and on….
Places we WILL visit: Leaving Virginia, we plan to travel through Louisville, KY, St. Louis, MO, Kansas, to Denver, CO. There picking up Trail Ridge Road over the Rockies, through parts of Utah and onto Las Vegas (prodigious sums of money maybe??) From Vegas, we will head south to the Grand Canyon, and Flagstaff/Sedona, AZ. Then we will need to go back east, through New Mexico, Amarillo, TX, Dallas and home again, home again, jiggety jig.
Are you in one of those places? (Maybe we can meet for coffee or tea?) Where should we NOT MISS? What is your favorite quilt store? Tell me about the thing that tourists just don’t know about, but that should be experienced. How about a great restaurant that we can’t miss? Do tell, I am excited to visit!
More Notes From the Refrigerator Door 
DO NOT MISS the Grand Canyon. I know you said you’re going there, and you must. The word awesome is SO overused, but there is no other word to describe it. If you can also go to Bryce Canyon in Utah, it’s probably prettier – but different.
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Sisters is pretty good. Once. Or twice. Too many people, too hot, the quilts are only OK, but really it looks so good hanging all over the buildings all over town. I haven’t been for years, but encourage you to come. Then come to Portland. The real Oregon. Have lunch with me on the banks of the Willamette or the Columbia or better, yet, at Multnomah falls. (You can have fresh trout for breakfast at the restaurant there.) Maybe not this year, but some year. OK?
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