Let my life shut down and the Jazz begin

10 Bands That Turn it up to 11

1. Led Zeppelin



2. The Beatles



3. Nirvana



4. Bob Dylan


5. The National



6. Tom Petty



7.Neil Young



8. The Smashing Pumpkins



9. The Avett Brothers



10 The White Stripes

Turn Down The Suck....Fall Addition

Turning the down the suck during the fall season!

1. Monsters of Folk - The Right Place
2. Karen O and the Kids - Worried Shoes
3. The Clash - Jimmy Jazz
4. Talking Heads - Psycho Killer
5. The Buzzcocks - Ever Fallin in Love
6. The Flaming Lips - All We Have is Now
7. Greg Brown - Pitchin In
8. Man Man - Big Trouble
9. Stars - Elevator Love Song
10. The White Stripes - You Got Her in your Pocket

Trail of Ten Water Falls (I made it to 4 of them).

I drove down to the Silver Falls State Park just outside of Silverton, Oregon and about a hour and a half out of Oregon City. I hiked this state park for about four hours and didn't see half of the waterfalls. I don't know why this place is not a national park, but it should be. Mom I did go all alone, but just to make you feel better, the park is very busy, and if I had fallen off one of the 100+ feet waterfalls someone would have found me in seconds.



This is not one of the waterfalls. This is run off from the heavy rain storm we had for the past two days. Beautiful non the less.



Upper North Falls about 60 feet.



View in front of Upper North Falls. Not sure what the river is called.



North Falls 160+ feet.



Middle North Falls 160+ feet as well.



A bridge that takes you to that takes you to Winter Falls.



The under cover under North Falls...amazing!!!

Fruit Loop...

Randy, Gayle, Carlon and myself went to Hood River today and drove the Fruit Loop. If you don't know what the Fruit Loop is, it is Mount Hood Scenic Route that does a loop through the many farms and vineyards North of Mount Hood. The purpose is to stop at these farms and vineyards to buy and sample (lots of samples) fruit, veggies, jams, wine, candy, and pick pumpkins.



Just outside of Hood River, Oregon.



Carlon in the corn maze.



Yours truly...have not shaved in a long time.



Mount Adams from the Oregon side.



Carlon and Gayle.



Carlon and Randy.



Carlon and Randy at Hood River.



Carlon and Myself in the truck.



Of course I made them stop at Full Sail Brewing Company.

Portland in a nutshell

Portland has some things that are uncommon for me. The effects of these exotic alternatives have caught me off guard.

1. Someone else pumps your gas
2. No sales tax
3. Mini bottles
4. Wine in the gas station
5. Fog
6. Lottery
7. Stone Brewing Company
8. Rain on minute sunshine the next
9. cowboys
10. Oregon Duck fans