Our Oregon Trip!

These pictures are from our trip we took the end of January, just before the beginning of this bone marrow transplant process that started February 3rd.    The write-up below is from the photo book we've put together chronicling our journey.

Pre Lockdown Trip

Oregon bound, what??  Yep folks, that’s how we roll! J We’ve been expecting a quarantine period ever since we decided to go forward with the high-dose chemotherapy and stem-cell transplant, but it wasn’t until two weeks before it all started that we found out that quarantine would be for 3 months—way longer than we expected!! So what have these two travel-hungry, nature-seeking, adventure-loving people decided to do to make the most out of the time left?  We go for a trip!! 

The question was, where to go?  Eve’s passport had expired, so that ruled out any international travel.  It was snowy in much of the country, which just sounded too cold. We’d been to California recently, so that left us with either the dry New Mexico desert or the lush, green Oregon.    We checked our sky miles and found round trip tickets to Portland OR for the cheapest possible miles!  And SO we booked it!   Oh yeah, and then got permission to go and HAVE FUN from Eve’s oncologist, her bone marrow transplant specialist, and her naturopathic physician. 

Eve immediately contacted her dear friend Sarah Lopath who she met in Oregon 15 years ago and “Lopes” proved to be the best travel agent we could have hoped for!  A week later we were on the plane!  Eve, donned her mask….and we set out with determination to eek out every bit of fun to be had. 

…as you will see we were successful!