Brookings, OR

This is Donald Christensen. He is 92 and we had a great talk today at McDonalds in Brookings, OR.
Fifty years old and flying a kite. I really enjoyed this. I've had the kite for 10 years and have only flown it about ten times. I hope to change that. It needs more use.
This is a stunt kite. I can do figure 8's and loop the loops and all kinds of neat tricks. I talked Kim into flying it but she said she didn't think she did very well. One of the neat things about it is that it is made of kite material - that's it. There are no spars to break. It is designed like my powered parachute and the wind keeps it open.
This is at the town of Port Orford. It is the only open water port on the Oregon coast and is one of six "dolly" ports in the world where recreational and commercial fishing boats are hoisted into and out of the water daily.
This is one of the beautiful Oregon shores we saw today. Hopefully we will go back and get pics tomorow if the weather clears.


Part of what we are doing is taking time – and that has its own rewards. Today we stopped at McDonalds in Brookings and met a very nice man. His name is Donald Christensen. He is 92 and we had a very nice conversation over lunch. He was born January 4th of 1915. We probably visited a half hour or so. Kim and I found him very interesting to talk to. It is a shame that people don’t take time to listen to people like this. He was a wealth of information – a walking history book. I really believe we enjoyed our visit as much as he did.

We saw some beautiful coast today but it was a bit rainy and foggy. We hope to take the car tomorrow and backtrack. There are 10 pull offs along the route and we plan to stop at them all. I had a good conversation with my mom and dad on the phone today and also with our son Ben, daughter Hannah and good friend Kevin Sommers. We haven’t had much phone service the last few days at our campground but today we moved to Brookings and we have service at the RV. Last night we were parked at the Winchester Bar RV Resort and the wind really rocked the coach! I awoke at 12:30 and Kim was in the kitchen making some tea. We looked over and our two neighbors were awake also. We went back to bed after about 20 minutes and fell asleep. I awoke at 2:30 and the wind was still. Last night a tornado touched down in Nappanee, IN. That is 20 minutes from where we lived. We got news today that our home church – Grace Community in Goshen called off church Sunday and encouraged all the people to show up in Nappanee and help with the storm damage. To us – THAT IS THE CHURCH! Jesus would rather have us out helping one another and showing our love than sitting comfortably when there is so much need. As our lead pastor Jim would say, “Great job Church!”