Sandra Scott Travels

Recently I attended a dinner theater presentation at the Oswego Foundry dealing with Safe Haven. The play was written by Michael Nupuf and Laura Lowrie and directed by Richard Mosher. It portrayed the life and times of a fictional family. I have read Ruth Gruber’s book “Haven.” I think it should be compulsory reading for students in Oswego County and elsewhere.

Portland may not be where the food truck culture started, but the food trucks have taken it by storm. One nice thing about a food truck caravan is that everyone can have what they like. I picked gyros, but there was soul food, mac and cheese, hamburgers and more. Some do so well they open up small restaurants.

Sunday, May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted.
I remember the year because in September 1980, when the new school year started, my class had a brand new red textbook. The first chapter dealt with the geography of the United States. One sentence read in essence, “There are no active volcanoes in the coterminous United States.”

The Willamette Valley is a 150-mile long valley in Oregon and was the terminus of the Oregon Trail. Some made it, others settled along the way, some branched off and went to California in search of gold. Others died, and some were born on the trail. I have always been fascinated by the Oregon Trail.

The terrorist attack that happened recently in Sri Lanka is horrific. But, if we are not familiar with a place or the people who experienced the horror, it quickly slips from our mind. Sri Lanka is a great destination and the people were very welcoming.

I spent Easter in Portland, Oregon, with my son, Jim. One of the things I wanted to do was to check out the Shanghai Tunnels so Jim booked the “Underground Walking Tour.” I had read that, in the 1800s, sailors were not eager so sign up to work on a ship headed to far-flung ports so a contractor would get sailors drunk and put them on a ship headed East.

In the early ’90s, shortly have my son, John, moved to Las Vegas we made a road trip to San Felipe, Mexico, never imagining the decades later he and his wife would buy a beach house there. It was a can’t-pass-up deal mainly because housing prices plummeted when the housing market went south so there were great deals to be had.