I've had the chance to do a lot of fun things since I've been in Oregon. I went to Oktoberfest in Mount Angel which is sooper easy to find -- you just drive down I-5 and go left for 16 miles. Then you drink buckets of beer and do the polka and the chicken dance in the biergarten until it's time to go home.

I went clamming in Long Beach (WASH) and ran around on the beach in the dark being a clam-killer. Later I helped clean them and Aunt Janet fried them and there were yummy. After the second time we went we found out the beach was closed down because the clams have some sort of toxins that make you get sick and lose your memory. Can't remember how many we ate.

In September I got to visit my two favorite TV towns: Cicely, Alaska and Twin Peaks, WA but no sign of Agent Cooper or Dr. Fleischman.

Weird Things

The first thing you learn when you spend a length of time in Portland is that they rag on Californians all the time. It's really annoying.

Another thing about Portland is that no matter what everyone tell you. IT IS NOT EASY TO DRIVE AROUND HERE. First of all, all the major streets are called about a zillion names -- there will be a highway number, a street number and a few different street names and then a highway name. And the street signs will have different names than the highway signs and when people give you directions they will never mention all the different names to you.

Then it never fails you will be in the totally wrong lane and you can't get over or you'll make a wrong turn and you will be on a bridge to who-knows-where and then onto the highway to hell which turns out is a small road that twists and turns off somewhere and there is no place to pull over or turn off or turn around or anything.

The plus side to all this is that I have been totally lost so may times that I hardly ever panic and start crying anymore.

Things of Note in Portland.

The car washes are open even when it rains. Radio is suck-ola-dola. Rarely a day goes by when I don't hear a song that I haven't heard in about 200 years, for example, today I heard Toto "Hold the Line." If anyone has a tape of Mark and Brian that would be very cool. I would also love some LA Times crossword puzzles.

Hope you have the greatest holidays and best wishes for 1992!!!!!.

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