Back to Life, Back to Reality...

I leave Eugene headed south today. I am supposed to be packing and getting my car ready right now. I better hurry with this post before Dad catches me! I will stay with my counsin, Joe and his wife Karen in San Jose tonight and then all the way to Phoenix tomorrow. When I get back I'll be moving apartments, moving classrooms and getting some planning in place before I start teaching in just two weeks! It'll be a busy two weeks but I anticipate a (hot) and happy return. A couple of friends are there already and the rest will be trickling in over the next week before our (mandatory) teach for america training next Saturday.

I am happy to report that I achieved my summer "big goal" of visiting 8 breweries while in Oregon this summer--the 8th occuring just yesterday. I also went to an Organic Brewers Festival in Portland. Success!