Wow!  I’ve been thinking about you today, and hoping we could connect before 7/15 to exchange contact info!  Will message mine to you.  I’m not on FB — tried it, and backed off when it interfered with a regular e-mail conversation I was having with a friend.  I’m a little too security conscious for that — and I don’t like their policy about photos, either.  I’ll stay here, but if Xanga dies I’ll probably go to WordPress.  It seems to be where a lot of my ‘friends’ will go.

I hope you’ll do a real post, catching us up on where you are, what you’ve been doing and so forth.  Has Rob found work?  Are you still in Oregon?  I still want to get northward from here this summer or next — in October, I’m going to Churchill, Manitoba, Canada hoping to see polar bears, and perhaps next year to Greenland and Iceland!