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2025 Pacific Northwest Trip

May – July 2025
  • JudyfromMoody
We traveled in our 2023 RAM Scope 18A out to visit our Avant retirees living in west Texas, Arizona, California, Oregon, Washington states and British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatoon provinces in Canada. Read more
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  • JudyfromMoodyTraveler2025 Pacific Northwest Trip

    Glamping at Last Resort Umpqua

    June 23 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 73 °F

    Took a leisurely drive north on the 101 then into Oregon. We had a nice picnic lunch again at a beautiful roadside park.

    Arrived at a Glamping spot just before 4pm. We are here for 2 nights with tomorrow heading to Crater Lake.

    We set up our “home”, played Rummycube and Kings corner before salad and yogurt for dinner. Glenn got my favorite picnic table cloth and I m are my routine salad.

    Nice accommodations. We walk 1/2 block to the showers and restrooms. The weather is nice and cool. You can hear the birds chirping and the creek waters babbling. I am happy, tired and content.

    We have a rigorous schedule starting on Wednesday for a whole week packed with a tight timeline of taking retirees out for lunch and also traveling a couple hundred miles up the coast.    Read more

  • JudyfromMoodyTraveler2025 Pacific Northwest Trip
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    Crater Lake

    June 24 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 55 °F

    We slept with the heater on during the night and I woke Glenn up twice to walk to the outhouse. Other than that we slept well.

    After an early morning shower, we headed towards Crater Lake. We arrived just before the 10am Crater Lake Trolley tour. Nice 2 hour tour.

    We enjoyed a picnic lunch on the side of the mountain with the back drop of Crater Lake. Majestic.

    We viewed several waterfalls on our 1 hour drive back to our Glamping site. All in all, it was a very good day.    Read more

  • JudyfromMoodyTraveler2025 Pacific Northwest Trip

    Retiree, Death and Bicyclist

    June 25 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 64 °F

    Today we visited a retiree, learned about the death of another retiree and then spent time with the guy Glenn rode his bicycle with in 1976 from Dallas to Colombia South America.

     We left the “Glamping spot” at 7:00am so we could drive back to the interstate 5, then make a stop at Walmart to pick up some groceries and fill up the gas tank then drive to Sweet Home Oregon to pick Faye.

    We had a delightful afternoon with Faye and learning more about her history in missions. She served in Bolivia the same years we were there. We started throwing out names of mutual friends within SAM and GMU. It was fun.

    We talked about blessings and challenges we both experienced while serving over seas. We also talked about aging parents.

    We then drove towards Newburg, Oregon to visit with retiree Harry J. Harry’s phone number didn’t work and I never got an email reply from trying to connect, so we thought we would just drop by and visit. The address took us to a retirement center. I got excited because then I knew we would finally find Harry.

    At the information desk, we learned that Harry doesn’t live there anymore. Then we learned that Harry had gone to live with one of his children then we learned that he had passed away a few months. Harry served many years in Ecuador and Colombia. I’m sad that we didn’t get the chance to meet, encourage and honor Harry. He lived a good life serving our Lord. I would have loved to hear his stories of serving with his wife in Latin America. I pray his family during this grieving time.

    Then we drove towards Hillsboro to spend time with Ben and Mariam. Ben and Glenn rode their 15 speed bicycles all the way from Dallas, Texas to Colombia South America back in 1976. A trip of a life time. 4 months and 5,000 miles, 1 concussion, 1 flat tires, many missionaries served and thousands of tracts handed out.. They reflected on many different adventures of people they met and places they visited back in 1976. We throughly loved reconnecting after many many years. We also talked about kids and grandkids. Ben drug out on old scrapbooks of sort of the bicycle trip. What a history book of the trip, receipts, postcards and description of their journey. Very well done.

    We even call my dad because he always is bragging about Ben Bakker and Glenn Stewart making this crazy bicycle trip.

    All in all, a rewarding, effective and encouraging day.

    Next, we checked into our “candle in the window” place about 1/2 hour away.    Read more

  • JudyfromMoodyTraveler2025 Pacific Northwest Trip

    Retiree from Austria, Costa Rica & Hdq

    June 26 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 55 °F

    Today was a full day. We drove into Portland and picked up Linda and then to Applebees. Here we were joined with the Robinson’s who served in Costa Rica and Nicaragua and the Meyers who worked at the Avant office.

    We sat around the huge restaurant table and went around and gave a report of where we all served and a little bit of how the Lord had been blessing and some challenges too. It was a nice gathering. Everyone appreciated the gift bags we gave them. And before we all left, we had a short prayer. It was a very good luncheon getting to know these retirees.

    Before heading to the Wecks home we stopped by the Bath and body work store at the mall. As I was walking out, I noted 2 of those massage chairs - yep Glenn and I enjoyed the relaxing 21 minutes for only $5.00! With it. My back was feeling a little bit better.

    We then drive over to John and Carley’s. They showed us their back yard gardens. All the pretty flowers. And taco salad for dinner.

    We returned back home to our Candle in the Window place for a good night sleep.    Read more

  • JudyfromMoodyTraveler2025 Pacific Northwest Trip

    Geri & Ken plus the Wecks

    June 27 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 66 °F

    On Friday we had lunch with Ken and Geri Paul. I first met Geri when we traveled together on PMT (summer internship) in 1977 through Central America. That was 48 years ago! Wow.

    Geri was a missionary kid from Honduras and she and I would get together and have a sweet season of prayer during our PMT days.

    I attended her wedding in 1979 in Guadalajara, Mexico. I was afraid of traveling internationally, so I asked my sister to fly with me.

    We had a nice visit recalling past visits. Back in 1982, Glenn and I flew up to enjoy a weekend with Ken and Geri bringing our infant baby Ellen. The story goes that Ellen slept all night, the following morning clear unto the afternoon, sound asleep in her infant carry seat all the while listening to Manheim steamrollers. The phrase “never wake up a sleeping baby” became a Stewart family quote.

    We later enjoyed the afternoon and evening with John and Carley.

    Saturday was REST day. Catching our breaths, relaxing, afternoon nap, YouTube and doing our wash.    Read more

  • JudyfromMoodyTraveler2025 Pacific Northwest Trip

    Boeing Assembly Plant

    June 29 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 75 °F

    We toured the Boeing plant. Very interesting!

    We were handed an envelope with 5 twenty dollar bills that said “use the FUN money for something fun”

    And thats what we did. We had fun enjoying watching the planes.

    On Monday, Jean and Paul showed us around. Her sister and husband joined us for dinner and cooking dessert out over the fire. Fun evening.    Read more

  • JudyfromMoodyTraveler2025 Pacific Northwest Trip

    Oh, Canada

    July 1 in Canada ⋅ ☀️ 77 °F

    After a delicious breakfast, Glenn and I headed to Canada to have lunch with Alison Craig. We stopped first at Tim Hortons for Tim Bits and for me to write some postcards. We had a rather engaging conversation of some Canadians that didn’t like the US or Trump. I think they didn’t like being called “the 51st state”. Who wouldn’t? Bottom line, they didn’t like all the tariffs that is hurting the Canadians and didn’t like how Trump was going about doing it however they mostly agreed with the other rpolicies.

    Alison lived across the street from us back in 1987-1990 in Santa Cruz at Kilometer 6 house. The girls were 2 and 4. Wow, what a lovely afternoon and lunch with Alison. We recounted stories after stories of our time together in Bolivia. At one point I FaceTime with Ellen so Alison could tell memories of the Stewart girls. Funny ones.

    We walked along the beach and had some great conversations until Ray and Linda showed up. We said good bye to Alison then drove to a coffee shop and park to visit with the Saucy. Ray and I graduated from Moody together and have stayed in touch. Great conversations and we even decided to drive 20 minutes down the road to eat dinner at their house followed by having ice cream and fresh berries.

    Oh and it’s Canada Independence Day! Perfect that we were here. Lots of Canadian maple leaf flags. The beach was crowded and lots and lots of people walking about!    Read more

  • JudyfromMoodyTraveler2025 Pacific Northwest Trip

    Guatemala Retirees

    July 2 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 64 °F

    We had a relaxing morning. Glenn got the RV serviced and oil change. Guess we’ve driven enough miles for an oil change.

    Then at 4pm we went for early supper at a restaurant on the water. I faced out to watch the sailboats float by. Hearth and Fire. The Martinsen’s, Sywulkas, Wray Ward and Susie S joined us. Service was good, food was delicious and the conversations were educational. We talked about how Paul and Jean fell in love, candidate classes back in the 60s and who knew who. Fun.

    I gave each of the couples and Wray a gift bag that included Bath and Body Works, devotional book and boxed greeting cards.

    Paul and Jean drive us 1 hour to YVR airport.

    Here’s the Game Plan: we are flying on the overnight flight to Tyler and welcome the Boerckels for 2 days followed by Patricia over the weekend then keeping several grandkids before flying back to Canada on July 15 to continue our RV Avant Retiree PNW Trip    Read more

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