Welcome to our blog. This is our first attempt at blogging, posting photos and sharing thoughts and experiences. We may start out rough, stumbling our way through, yet as we get more comfortable and familiar, it could get better. The kids will do alot of the posting as we go. Gregg and I will chime in our experiences too. Hope you enjoy the trip with us.
We start our trip from our small farm in central Illinois heading to Central Point, Oregon. Central Point is close to the border of Oregon and California, near the town of Medford and Ashland. We will be stopping at many campgrounds along the way. I should add here, this is our first attempt at camping away from home. We spent the entire last month camping in our yard preparing for this trip. We have slept through strong storms and many many nights of unending rain, yet No Leaks!!! We took the tent down and back up in rain and know we can do it.
The coyotes howled, neighbor cat came over regularily to pick fights with our cat and we spent many nights doing bug checks only to find the loud buzzing of wings were thankfully between the no-see-um --(type of tiny bug) --proof screen and the rain fly. Deer showed up outside the tent and we held our breath, hoping the dog wouldn't bark sending the deer into the tent, in attempts to escape. He didn't and they moved on. The last night prior to packing the tent, two neighbor kittens showed up at 3am crying into the ground level window opening, wet, cold, hungry and thirsty. We put them in a barn, cared for them and got them back home the next day after a phone call. The tomcat visiting to fight seems to be very busy reproducing and acting as mom to the kittens we are told, since mom disappeared.
I think we are ready. We spent yesterday preparing the house and yard for all the caregivers of our animals, making travel foods and packing. While still up last night at 2am, planning to leave at 3am, that idea ended as we crashed and slept until 6am. Like I said, off and running but hardly left. We finally got going many many hours later, traveling through the very flat regions of Illinois heading into the rolling hills and valleys of west central Illinois.
You might ask what makes this journey a Raw Food Journey. We are headed to Central Point, Oregon for the Raw Union, http://www.rawunion.com/ . It is a raw/living food festival at an organic farm retreat center. We will see speakers, demos and try many new raw living foods. The event includes a wedding ceremony and reception for Matt Monarch and Angela Stokes of the Raw Food World TV show. You can see all the events planned at their website. We will be meeting many people we have conversed with online or read their work or tried their recipes. We are excited and can't wait to share with you what we experience.
We have been on a journey of health with raw vegan foods for 1 1/2 years. We have seen incredible weight loss, healing within our bodies and wonderful changes in our entire family. On this raw food journey we will also get to see parts of the country we haven't seen and meet others who share some similar choices in eating and lifestyle.
I hope you enjoy our trip.
Photos to follow. 1st rule of blogging - blog near a major town where you are apt to get a signal and continue to have one in the middle of your post.
Wishing you well
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