We are headed to Portland on Sunday. We are flying standby as a dear friend contributed airline passes to help with this trip. The only hitch is the standby part, so if we don't get on a flight tomorrow, we'll be spending the night with Charlene and Tony Pizutti in Canby. The flights are fairly full tomorrow, but they are wide open on Monday. So for sure on Monday we'll be flying over the rockies. Good news is we can take Ansel's electric scooter. It's considered a medical assist device, and so there isn't an additional charge nor is it considered baggage.

So here's one of our targets, to find where this house is or used to be. It is the home of Ansel's maternal grandparents Sylvester and Mary Vorhis, at Troy, Iowa. Pictured from left to right, Ansel's mother Eva, her brother Vivian, and parents Mary and Sylvester. Sylvester is listed on US Census forms as being a farmer, and owning farm property. Ansel remembers being told that he was born in this house.