Now after weve been here about three weeks, Bob and Julie are getting ready to leave for the States ending their three year tour. On Monday their packers come and then on Tuesday the movers … to crush all their stuff into containers for the long ship and rail journey to Portland. On Friday they board a military flight home and we will begin the next part of our journey.

A little about our daily life. In spite of the frogs, our little house on the lake is working out super. The only things we don’t have are a washer-dryer in the place or a computer hookup of any sort. Both are necessities. So we pop over to the base every other day or so between touring sorties and while Jo-Anne cleans out the latest wine stains from our stuff, I try to keep you updated. The problem with not having a computer at the apartment is time and that has restricted how much I can put on the blog … particulary pictures. We now have hundreds of beautiful shots that I wish we could get to whoever was interested, but that may take mailing a CD or some other method … but I’ll work on it.