Alia's voyage

I just found and read all of your comments--Thank you so much! I will now read them every day!!!  Librarians are wonderful. One just helped me get on my blog so I could write. I love librarians! And everywhere I go people help me.  Yesterday a "Good Humor" by another name truck came to the park and it looked rather "dry" so I thought I would go buy something, and I asked the price of a creamsicle, but it was $3 and I only had $2, so he called me back and gave it to me for $2. It was not very good, and to think my girlfriend and I treated each other on alternate days to ice cream for only 5 cents, with real strawberries in the vanilla ice cream and orange outside. Oh well, "Times, they are a changin'."

 Oh my goodness! July 31!  My ability has been hampered by wobbly internet access and wobbly brain and singing camp, so I shall start with today and work backwards. Today I woke up in a residential district where I had hidden out for the night. I am in wilsontown, OR and had found my way around yesterday, washed my car, bought ice, found a park with restrooms, replenished my cash supply at BofA and got to know part of Wilsontown. This morning I drove back to the park to use the restroom. An attendant was there so I asked about all night parking there. She then drove me to a proper parking lot (people are so helpful and wonderful), where I will park tonight, complete with restroom access. Then I used the car wash vacuum to get some of the stuff off my floor. Now I look quite presentable. (Well I don't, but my car does). My car now had little momentos from other people and from me, so that I can recognize it , as well as some stickers (mostly from Mono Lake, Lee Vining, and my F...

 Dear Ones, I am here at my Village Harmony singing camp, It has been a wonderful day of singing and meeting new friends. It is bedtime now, so I will have to continue tomorrow, but send love and gratitude to each of you.  Alia

 At last I can write more--It has been a very long time!  I am now at Mackensie Bridge Oregon attending a Village Harmony singing camp for a week. The last week I spent in a campground near by, with trees over 100 feet tall--maybe even 150, since I paced one and got to where the tree had fallen across a road and was cut short at over 100 feet. It had the Mackensie river running through it, with most campers carrying kayaks and rafts--no one invited me to join them! I have realized that campgrounds are the most difficult because almost everyone is part of a couple, a family or close friends, so I miss my community more. When I drive or sleep in my car I do not feel so alone. Now I have many new friends, and received an offer to go to Washington State and have a free place to stay--maybe I will! The Pacific Ocean was beautiful, but cold for me, so I did not stay too long. I loved Crater Lake, where I took the trolley tour--a very good way to see it without driving!!! Then I had ...

 I have been with Nan Goreth, my Danville CA sister-in-law. We have done jigsaw puzzles, watched much TV news and other. Time for exercise now

 Hello Friends and Family, I have not written much since I left Lee Vining--sad to leave--it was a home to me and I met wonderful people   and did special things. Then there was the beautiful but harrowing trip through Sonora Pass, then getting on the busy highway. I did not realize until Nan Goreth's (my sister-in-law) that I was wider than an ordinary car, and hit the garage post going in--no wonder these narrow winding roads are scary! Then I had a great visit with Nan, just cooling out, and then a sweet visit with Jan, Ellen and Navi, including many walks with Navi and a trip to see a circus (acrobatics) play of the Secret Garden--it sounds impossible but was very good! Then I returned to Nan's and had a delightful visit with Carl and Francesca, did laundry and restocked my larder--I use about a bag of ice every day and a half in my cooler. Then on to Mt. Shasta and a friend of Jan's (Shushi) and I am there now, at last seeing Mt. Shasta town, and tomorrow more of the a...

 Hello again, It seems my recent blogs did not make it. I can never recover them, so I shall go on.  Yesterday I woke before 6AM, and began driving. The Tioga pass to Yosemite will not be open until mid-July or later. So I was recommended to the Sonora Pass north of Lee Vining. Retrospectively I may have chosen the way by Lake Tahoe because the Sonora Pass was full of hairpin bends and hills from 4000' to over 9000', up and down and round and round. Fortunately leaving early meant essentially no traffic, but still white knuckling most of the way. Then when I was down and had a little respite in easier roads until I had to drive on the major highway and although it kept moving, everyone was going 70+MPH, and also white knuckling!  I arrived at Nan Goreth's, my sister-in-law's home about 3PM, having stopped twice, once for breakfast and once to buy fruit. What I did not say is that the Sonora Pass was very beautiful, with rock walls and snow banks each side of the road 6...