Category: family

rDay Two-Hundred-Seventy-Five: Christmas Day [continued]

After delivering homemade baked goodies and gifts to Grandma Janet, Ivi returns to join the rest of us in an afternoon and evening of family games … wherein the older generation is soundly trounced by the younger.  Fresh from his victory in an online puzzle design competition, Nik is a particularly formidable opponent. 

rDay Two-Hundred-Seventy-Five: Christmas Day

Up early before daylight to brave a winter hazard alert and temps in the teens, making our way out of the valley and across the mountains to Pendleton, picking up Ivi who had flown in from Portland at daybreak, after riding the train from Seattle the night before.  Upon arriving back home at 9:30 or so, breakfast was the first item of business, then a quick check-in at 103, followed by a series of naps to facilitate the resumption of Christmas festivities by noon.  Charlie and Ivi: reunited.

The Iowa VW Situation, 1972

In late summer of 1972, I stopped over in Davenport, Iowa on my way to an extended business stay in Boston and Washington, DC.  Here we see my brother and his family and our interactions with his 1969 VW bug and his 1972 VW camper.