Oregon Trip Wrapup

[canyonwalker]

Oregon 2023 Travelog #8
Back home. Tue, 4 Jul 2023, 3:45pm

We're home now from our holiday weekend trip to Oregon. Although we bailed out early today we still managed to see and do so much the past 3 days. Here are a few thoughts:

Always have a Plan B (and C, and D)

Bailing out of hiking today was a hard choice but the right one. We then switched to a Plan B, which fell through, as did Plan C. We quickly figured out a Plan D of going home early and having a cook-out dinner with friends. As far as fourth choices go, I"m looking forward to it!

Oh, and we had more time than expected to unpack from this flight and get ready to have friends over for dinner... because our Southwest flight actually arrived early. Imagine that!

What I forgot this trip

I've joked many times before that every trip I forget one thing. The one thing I forgot this time was a doozy... almost. I forgot the charger for my computer! The moment I realized the mistake I started thinking about how to ration my computer's battery charge for 4 days. Then I remembered that my MacBook Air can charge via MagSafe adapter or USB-C. Hawk had a USB-C power brick, so I was good borrowing hers twice. Not that I really had a lot of time to use my computer on this trip; we were too busy hiking, driving, and doing other fun stuff.

Blogging backlog

As usual with these trips I'm behind on blogging. I did manage to keep the pace with our epic, 8-waterfall hike on Saturday by combining short video clips I made at seven of the falls into a nice video montage. Posting just one video from so many amazing sights seems anticlimactic, though. And anyway I didn't record as much video at the 7 or 8 waterfalls we hiked Monday, nor the three we hiked Saturday. Oh, and then there's the raptor center we also visited on Saturday. I'll be posting photos from those great trips for... oh, about the next week, I figure.