The overnight option didn't happen so it was a starlit 4.30 start to get up to Grants Pass and collect Larry and Paula before heading off to the regional type conference in Eugene for an 8.30 start.

I am pleased to say that despite a smaller audience than was originally anticipated, the Regional Type Conference in Eugene was a truly great event.
Richard Gyuro had done a first class job organising the event and on the day was an equally great master of ceremonies.

The overall tone from the attendees was one of being open to a breed standard for alpacas and it was a shame we didn?t have more time to debate some of the issues.
Broadly speaking most people were happy with the existing Australian breed standard for alpacas.

Quite how the various regional type conference results will now be ?blended? into one document, which is then presented at the National Type Conference in Reno this November, isn?t clear at this time. So answers on a postcard to the AOBA board if you have any good ideas!

I eventually arrived back on the farm at 7pm so had a trouble free journey in both directions which is one of the beauties of living in Oregon...its the same physical size as the United Kingdom but with 3 million people rather than 60 million.

Adrian Stewart