Hi gForce and RTL -

I am doing just fine. We took the kids to an indoor play place for a cub scout get together last night. W was there for a bit and was sick as usual. She sat at a table far away from any of the other cub scout parents.

I leave Saturday morning for a little over 3 weeks of exploration and fun. Our first day is a long drive of over 300 miles to a place past Burns Oregon called Crystal Crane Hot Springs. I plan to stop along the way between Bend and Burns to let the kids gather some obsedian at Glass Butte.

Our second day will be expolring the Malheur cave and then the Alvord desert on the east side of the Steens. We will probably camp at Bog Hot Springs just over the border in Nevada.

Then we will do some hiking in the Ruby Mountains and onward to Utah...