It’s now only 2
months before the World Parkinson Congress and I hope many of you will be
traveling to Portland in September. I’ve
gotten a head start on the travel to Portland by actually moving there - 23 years ago after graduating from medical school. Since I took a rather unique route to Portland
that took me over a month to complete, I thought I share some of my travel
images here.
My trek started
with a 1000 mile road trip to move a dog and two fish from Las Vegas to
Portland and allow me to meet the first shipment of our household goods. I was fortunate to have companions, because
my path took me along a lot of open roads including “The Loneliest Road in
America” – US Route 50 in Nevada.
Two days after
reaching Portland, I flew back to Las Vegas to begin a
journey to attend six US National Team soccer games within a month’s time. We flew to San Juan, Puerto Rico for the
first game and the start of a week long journey to visit three of the major cities in Caribbean. The other two cities were Santo
Domingo in the Dominican Republic and Port au Prince – with this stop in Haiti
added one more countries to the list of those I’ve visited.
Puerto Rico Dominican Republic
Haiti Haiti
After a brief two
day stop in Portland to begin unpacking, I traveled to work a few days in
Seattle and Denver. Then we were off on
a cross country journey to watch Copa America games in four US cities: Santa Clara, Chicago, Philadelphia and Argentina
Our month of travels culminated is a very special
event when Lila and I spent 4 days in Bermuda to
renew our wedding vows and celebrate of our 25th wedding anniversary.
Our return to the
States was then followed by another 1000 mile drive from Las Vegas to Portland
to move our second vehicle and finally unload the second shipment of house
goods in Portland. Now that we are somewhat
settled back in Portland I am beginning to plan for some activities during WPC 2016. Here are a few highlights:
- I will be emcee for the Parkinson’s
Resources of Oregon Sole Support walk on the weekend leading up to WPC. I hope to see many of you there, so here is the
link to further information: Sole Support for Parkinson's
- I’m looking forwarding to coordinating
get-togethers for my fellow WPC bloggers and those that have been involved with my
travel challenges in the past...more to come later.
- Mark
