Three weeks before we leave for South America, and we felt a little pressure to go out and do some “Oregon” things before takeoff. The hot dog days of summer came around, so we drove up to the Middle Fork of the North Fork of the Willamette River, to the Aufderheide Highway. We found a swimming hole up there a few years back, and have tried to get up there at least once a summer. It’s a big, deep hole in between two sets of rapids, with frreeezing cold water. We went there with our camp chairs and pillows, our cooler, and our book, and we spent all afternoon by the river. We went swimming and we watched the fish jumping. A lovely Oregon day.