PCT 2018 Day 90, July 21, Saturday
Start mile 2144.2, Cascade Locks, camp at Marine Park Campground
End Aloha, Oregon, visiting with old friends
Miles walked: ZERO
I have made plans to spend the day with Bruce and Beth, deareold friends from when I used to live in the Portland area back in the 1980s. Bruce picks me up at Cascade Locks, at the drive-in hamburger place. It has been so long, we hardly recognize each other. His spouse Beth has a function at the Guide Dogs for the Blind Oregon campus, so we go to meet her there.
Beth is raising Peaches (sorry if I get the name wrong), a candidate guide dog. Each dog is periodically evaluated for any disqualifying traits, and less than 50% successfully complete the program as a guide dog or breeder dog. The guide dog facility is as large as a small community college campus, and many other candidate dogs are there for a meet-and-greet. Beth is hoping to see some of Peach’s litter mates, but none are there today. The function has a space theme, pretty cute.
Later we go to their home in a town west of Portland, which was still being built when I left Oregon around 1986. Beth presides over a huge garden, and Bruce has welded many ornamental pieces for it.
Here is their view from the house, quite excellent.
Much conversation ensues.
Good day.