May, continued...

Today Lon's received his 50th chemo treatment (90 weeks since he started in August of 2013!) Since he is planning his second annual fishing trip to Petersburg, Alaska in June, it was decided he could take four weeks off from chemo to let his body build up some strength so he can enjoy the experience a bit more.  He is very happy about the prospect of having a break from it for that long.  The tumor marker number is staying quite low, and his oncologist said she thought the best "treatment" for him would be to go on the fishing trip.  The side effects of this treatment have been uncomfortable fluid retention (causing swelling and shortness of breath) and hair loss.  He has a new medication to add today to help curb the fluid retention.  He's taking the hair loss in stride - not a big deal!  After all, as one of his friends mentioned, "Hair is overrated!"

We took a little trip to Idaho last week with our friends, the Whitehalls, camping at Farragut State Park on Lake Pend Oreille.

Apparently we were getting out of Wenatchee at just the right time...since it rained there the whole time we were gone!  This picture is looking out our truck window as we followed our friends' trailer.

Here are Peggy and Cal at a spot along the lake - we have some interesting memories of that bike ride.  :-)  Cal is showing a lovely pine cone... 

but Lon is threatening to throw his!  Typical.

We did some touring around the area where Peggy was raised, and shared numerous meals together.  Here are Lon, Brian, Cal and Peggy at dinner the first night at the campground.

Peggy and Janet in a field of flowers at the Old Mission at Cataldo, Idaho

Cataldo Mission Church

 Near Kellogg, ID, we stopped to observe the memorial to the Sunshine Silver Mine disaster of 1972, where Peggy's older brother lost his life.  His name is among those one the commemorative plaque.

We continued on to Wallace, where we had a guided tour of the old railroad station museum.

This guide especially took pride in showing us the equipment the stationmaster had to use.  

Here are the old folks posing out front.