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Reporting from Baker City Oregon.......

Well I flew down yesterday from Spokane to Boise for Stacy's graduation from the POST Academy. Because of all the still winter weather in this area, the plane from Los Angeles was delayed thirty minutes. Got to Boise, got the car and headed to Meridian to the motel. Stacy was able to meet with me after her dinner at the Academy and we got to spend some time talking about all that's happened in the past almost two weeks. Then she had to get back for her final night there. They were checking all the attendees out from their rooms by 7 am, so she was up by 5:30 am to get the room to the necessary specks for the final room check.
I got to the Idaho State Police training facility at about 11 am (10 by my watch because the south end of the state is on mountain time) for the 1 pm ceremony. I watched some Utah to Oregon motorcycle police training at the adjoining track for a while, glad that I didn't ride my Gold Wing down like we'd originally talked about. It was "unseasonably cold" read FREEZING, and only in the upper 30's and very windy which made it a lot colder. When I left home yesterday it had been snowing most of the night, was snowing when I left, and there was about 2 inches on the ground. If I hadn't crashed, and I imagine I would have, I sure would have frozen trying to get there! Anyway back to the graduation. I was able to go inside to the building for the graduation and got a good area for my video camera. It started right on time and as things like this usually seem to be, the guest speaker took too much time not really saying anything of relevance to the proceedings. But Stacy and her class all did it! The two weeks of hell were over. Over by 2 pm then it was get the rental back to the airport and be on our way home. We went to Baker City to see about going to the Oregon Trail Interpretative Center just outside of town, then continue towards home. Well the Center is still on winter hours until April 1st, so we decide to stay in town and go in the morning. That and all the SNOW. The last 50 miles was snow, snow and more snow. Although not snowing at this moment, it is still predicted to snow more tonight to add to the about 1 1/2 on the ground.
And a lot of people thought winter was over, HA!
Well, Stacy's about done catching up with her laundry so I guess that will be it for now. I took photos in addition to video so when we get home I'll post some pictures on the blog.
Hope everybody is doing well. Tad

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