Up a little later this morning, we read a bit, had coffee and breakfast, then set out for a visit with Uncle Sonny, Ray's mom's brother. Ray's cousin, Sonny's daughter, Theresa was there as well. We hadn't seen her or Uncle Sonny in about 20 years. We spent a nice afternoon catching up with both of them. Sonny is 91 now, and lives by himself, as his wife, Lillian, is in a nursing home. He is able to live alone with daily help from Theresa.
We had remembered the area where Sonny had lived as a bucolic rural area. Portland has grown tremendously since then, and that area is now teeming with housing developments where the homes are within spitting distance of one another. On Sonny's former property, there are now 3 homes. Times change, and not always for the better. Late in the afternoon, we checked in to our hotel in Salem, OR, went shopping for food (the area we are heading to tomorrow is really rural), and went to a restaurant for dinner.
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