MAN TRIP 101

To have a successful "Man Trip", one must need the following:

Whitewater Raft, paddles, Gary, Kendall, Kyle, Brandon, beer, fly rod, flies, campfire, cliffs, rope swing, 16 miles of a raging river, steaks, sunburns, naked hippies soaking in hot springs at night...(dirty hippies)..., and one hitch hiking encounter with a free spirited man who referred to himself as the "divine director" for the upcoming takeover of the earth by alien life forms. WHAT A TRIP!!! CLICK HERE to see some funny videos of our trip on Kens Blog!

Visit from Bisel

This past weekend my long lost buddy from the heartland stopped by Bend for a visit. It was SO GOOD reminiscing with Matt Bisel about the lives we lived in Kansas back in Highschool and most of college. We were best buddies...just living the bachelor dream! We wrote songs, recorded, and toured together all across the Midwest. We even took some killer trips to the Hawaiian Islands. And now we're both married and thousands of miles apart. Court & I took Bisel up to the mountains where Matt saw his first siting of a Bald Eagle (it flew right over us while we were swimming). We also found some sweet looking tadpoles and almost got run off the road by a bike race! It was GREAT to see Matt again! I wish he and his wifee would pack up their covered wagon and ride the Oregon Trail to...well...Oregon!

WHITE WATER RAFTING

We just got back from the most random expedition we have encountered here in Bend. After church, we got a call from The Fitches inviting us to quickly come over so that we could meet up with some other folks who had randomly picked up a few rafts from a white water rafting company. The sketchy-ness factor was rising as the expedition began to unfold. The whole trip was on a whim and the most random people started showing up to take part in the action (none of which were rafting guides and no real experience to speak of). The idea was to forge the mighty Deschutes River! AND WE ACTUALLY DID, it was exhilarating! We floated a few miles and hit 3 really great sections of rapids that successfully folded our boat in half and launched two guys out of our neighboring boat. It was sweet! Court was falling out at one section of rapids, but we snatched her back in the boat before the river completely took her. Who would have thought that 20 minutes from our front door we could be white water rafting...and this is why we love Bend! Yesterday we were swimming in the mountain lakes and exploring the Cascade Mountain Range, and today we were white water rafting...and we've only been back from SoCal for like 3 days! Who knows what the next adventure will be. The skies pretty much the limit here in Bend.

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SoLong SoCal

All in all, our time in Southern California was perfect! We had our fill with the beach and the surf, hit up some great weddings, and got to spend some quality time with the friends & family that we love so dearly! We decided that we should live near the beach again sometime in the future. The Ocean is our first love, closely followed by the mountains...we need to find a place that has warm oceans with great surf and high snowy mountains surrounding it. The drive back to Bend, Oregon was a long one (15+ hours) but it gave us time to think and time to listen to what the Lord will have us do in the next few months. We're moving full steam ahead and stoked to see what this season of life has for us. He is faithful and we are willing.