June 18, 2021
Because of COVID and our daughter Elizabeth Leigh’s (now Leigh for professional reasons) school schedule, we hadn’t been together in 18 months. We scheduled two weeks in Eugene to remedy the situation and had an amazing time seeing some of the area, eating great local and home-cooked food, and just hanging out with Leigh, her husband Brett, and Berlioz and Figaro who were foster kittens at our house 9 years ago.
Eugene was the site of the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials while we were there. It had taken many phone calls to find an RV site because of the trials, and we ended up 40 miles south of Leigh and Brett’s house. It wasn’t an ideal situation, but it gave us the opportunity to explore places we otherwise wouldn’t have seen and the campground was quite nice. How many people can say they’ve stayed in Rice Hill, Oregon?
With Leigh and Brett, we hiked Spencer’s Butte, elevation 2058, and enjoyed a view of Eugene as well as peaks of the Cascade Mountains. The native Kalapuya called it Cham-o-tee (Rattlesnake). The Spencer whose name is used today was a Hudson’s Bay Company employee killed by the Kalapuya.
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