A lovely dinner at Bart and Nancy Stein fared thee well as we left Bandon in the care of Dell Grey and Diana Corder the next day. Lots of conservation about tolerance of others was had, along with Salmon for everyone else and Halibut for me! How nice were they to cater to my preference in fish?
Just wanted to mention that Colleen Showalter is a direct descendant to Robert Morris, a signatory on the Declaration of Independence. She is also an all-round good egg! Keep up the good fight Colleen, you are your gorgeous family are welcome at my house any day.
The Fab-u-lous Dell swept us away from the Dunes and with nary a backward glance as we anticipated Roseburg, our final host stay. (Did I mention how great Mr. Gray is? How he came to Grants Pass to acquaint us and make sure that we were good with our schedule? The thing is, this kind of generosity and thoughtfulness is rampant through Oregon Rotary. Wherever we have gone we have been wined and dined, feted and pampered. It's going to be hard going back to normal life.)
Diana and Dell took us to lunch at Linda's in Coquille. Linda is a fantastic little firebrand and received the Rotarian of the Year Award again this year (but I jump ahead a little.) She started a whole slew of Interact clubs in her district, and we got to meet the first District Governor for Interact in 5110! All the young ladies and gents we met were lovely, well spoken and nascent Rotarians! The team really enjoyed chatting with them. I also chatted with some parents and Rotarians on the deck whilst wolfing down spaghetti and meatballs. Great conversation was had about tolerance and understanding, Haiti, religious understanding etc. etc. etc. Phew lots of fun.
Don't let me forget to mention Jim Bush, a dad of one of the Interact kids, who is a descendant of King Edward I of England AND Charlamagne of France!
Off to Roseburg we went after our little stop off. Where we met our host families at McMinimens and I met Marty and Marisa Fink. Lovely couple. I will admit to wondering why I didn't get paired with Diana due to our mutual obsession with shoes - but I was more than happy to go home with a pair of career YMCA'ers.
Marisa gave me a quick tour of the facility where she is Executive Director and then home to a lovely home and warm bed.
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