Travelog for: Picado

After my family and I got picked up in Springerville Arizona we traveled to Farmington New Mexico.  As soon as I got there I was invited to go visit a friend so I am leaving tomorrow morning to visit Melbourne Australia. 
Here is a picture of me with my family near Springerville Arizona.

Watch a movie of our trip to Farmington, New Mexico

Picado has enjoyed a few months down under in Melbourne. He has been to the gym  for a few work outs and has shopped in a few centres mainly for winter clothes . He likes to talk to the cat Neddy and dislikes the dogs barking . He enjoys watching Aussie Rules Football on cable TV .  He did watch professional footballers .
He told me he is ready to move on and would like to go up North for Winter .

Picado is en-route to Oregon following a relaxing visit down under.

Yipee!  I am so glad to be out of that package.  The flight was marvy but it was a bit dark in there.  The crew only came round once with p-nuts and you know how hungry I can get on long flights. 
Thank goodness we stopped at this marvelous bakery and got some goods before going to my hosts home.
It is called "Our Daily Bread" and they also serve lunches there. Yes--it is in this old church.  Great food!

My host has treated me to a welcoming party when I arrived and I got to meet some other toyvoyagers and was finally reunited with my brother Morado.  What a great day it is.
Oregon is beautiful and I am already having a great deal of fun.

I will write more another day,  as I am going to a sheep show now and will have to report in tomorrow with more photos.

Bye!

Morado with friend  Picado who just landed here the other day from Australia went visiting a fun place over the weekend called the "BlackSheepGathering."  There were a lot of sheep and goats that were being shown "judged" for competition.
Then we got to play with a few of the goats and sheep and sit down and talk to them.

Picado, being very friendly, talked to a pretty ewe that said this was her first gathering and she was explaining to Picado about all the events happening there.  Picado said she was a toyvoyager traveling around the world.  The young ewe said she would love to become a toyvoyager one day.  that would be a lot of fun to travel.

Most of the sheep were very friendly but the one large Angora ram was a busy and mean sort.  He butted the fence each time we came over to visit.  My host sat us on the fence and that way we were safe.

All in all it was an interesting day.  I never knew that sheep wool came in so many colors!  Baaaaaaaa!

The rodeo comes to Eugene once a year and the cowboys are on national tour for a bull riding contest.

The rodeo grounds was protected where one could not go near the bulls for photos.  They also did not let us down close to the fence to take better photos so we did not stay.  Maybe we will get to the next rodeo before leaving Oregon and get better photos of the events.

For now I am hanging out and feeling more like a rodeo queen everyday.  My host provided me with a really cool cowboy hat which I love! 

Today was a great day to be in Oregon.  95* F- and a little warm but my host provided beverages for all of us.  Thank goodness! 

There are many covered bridges still left in Oregon that have been rebuilt for keeping for the future.  Most of them you can not travel on anymore but you can walk across many of them and we took a lot photos today of Bridges.

Before we began our tour we saw a beautiful wall Mural for photo taking that shows the Bridges are very popular in this town of Cottage Grove, Oregon. 

We also found some caches on some of the bridges too.  Funny how people hide such tiny little things to find and then sign your name on a piece of paper to say you had been there.  Some were very difficult to find.

My host spoke to several very nice people while we were taking photos of the bridges.  Many people asked why she was taking photos of me in front of the bridges.  Many people laughed and we made many new friends talking about toyvoyagers.

My host has provided a link for viewing more bridges around the state of Oregon.

Oregon Bridges

Here are photos of the bridges that we visited. 
We had a great day!

Oh yes!  There are more bridges in the surrounding area of Cottage Grove and we stopped at many.
It was an interesting day.

Here is the last of the old bridges that we visited today.  This is one of the oldest bridges in the area.  Note---we can not walk on this one or get near it. 
It is due for taking down very soon. 

Picado was adventuras today.  Picado's host took her by Van over the Aufderheide Trail.  It was a very long ride for a rabbit but it was a beautiful day for traveling.
http://gorp.away.com/gorp/activity/byway/or_aufde.htm

We started along the trail at Westfir and yes---there was another very large bridge there.
Also very large trees and a big dam along the route.

The view was great from here!

After the Aufderheide trail ride we came out at the other end of the road to a very famous place here in Blue River, Oregon.
It is called the "Christmas Treasures" shop.  One goes here all year round to shop for those wonderful Christmas items.
http://www.christmas-treasures.com

We found several fun characters just standing outside waiting for visitors.  Not many had much to say but the Welcome bear was a real character.  He could talk all day.

Back home after a great weekend and we went shopping today to look for new clothes.  I found this great bandana for around my neck.  My host got it for me and I think it looks great with my hat.

I stood in front of this funny little car with a dolls head on the front hood/bonnet.  My host and I thought it was quite funny so we took a photo.

Picado had an invitation to go to Singapore and left here the 13th. of July to visit Sybones.  Have fun Picado.  We enjoyed your company.

I'm in Singapore!

But my host has been really busy as she's starting university.. Thus although she brought me out on many ocassions, the places were either too boring or the camera forgot to appear..

Anyway, let's see what I have here first!

Ok today I embarked on a 1-hour train ride to the university.. And on the train I saw Chinese Garden!