Oregon: Welcoming us home to the Northwest

Shannon's Bambini in Eugene, OR.
New recruit.
Shy little one in Organic Cotton.


These kids were great! I wanted to continue photographing them and all of their youthful charisma. This one was especially funny in her Red Bandana!
Colorful little girl in Purple Bandana. Her father co-owns and runs Green Eye Auto, a car company that purchases used Mercedes and diesel-fueled cars for biodiesel conversion. They found us a fuel filter and installed it for us!

Mother's Day is every day
Spring and I made friends at The Laughing Planet, a welcomed referral for dinner. Brown rice and delicious, locally-grown veggies never tasted sooo good! On every table and lining the entire counter where everyone first orders before finding a table are toy dinosaurs and a robot. I realized we had kind of lost a little of our minds when I walked up to one of the servers with Bronto in hand and asked with my best dinosaur voice, "Do you have wireless?" The server looked at me and in a shocked and slightly-scared giggle asked "What?" Instead of switching it up to ensure she actually heard me, I asked again in the same dinosaur voice, "Do YOU have wireless for my computer?" She laughed, shook her head, and confirmed that they did. As Utah Philips strongly suggests, "You've got to mess with people, day and night, you have to mess with people! You gotta mess with 'em!
They just kind of sink into a cryonic torpor and they're never seen again, god!"

I love Spring's desire to stop and smell the flowers.
The gazebo in the beautiful backyard of The Campbell House, the quaint B&B we opted for on our last night on the road.
Our reflection in diesel-powered Petroleum hauler.