Oct 8, 2012 - California, Here We Are, Klamath, September 21-24

Klamath, CA, September 21-24 On the 50th day of our journey we finally reached California. We researched our camping directories and noticed that there were a number of campgrounds in a place named Klamath. This might be a good point to explain how we select campgrounds. Since we do not know people in most of these places, we depend on three things, A Campground Directory, the locations we are looking to be in, the campground internet sites, and very importantly, reviews of campgrounds on the internet. Sometimes if there are many sites,...

Sep 25, 2012 - klamath river rv park -CA

ave of the giants, was the orginal hwy 101. they is signs of serious cutting, deforestation, but in 1917 people (founders) started a push to save the redwoods. now 170,000 acres of redwoods are protected. Redwood trees are not affected by fire or bugs, but with shallow roots they can just fall down during wet seasons. The giant tree was over 1600 yrs old, but was toppled by chainreaction, by two other trees. NOTE - screwed-up..... the commente/pic's for garberville are from kalmath, and vice-a-versa, to much trouble to fix.

Sep 2, 2012 - Klamath California - Klamath Kamper Corral

Headed out along hwy 16 to cache creek, once by the casino the traffic all but disappeared and left us alone heading to hwy 20. Lots of burn area along 20 until you get to Lakeport, temps were starting to rise as we finally hit 101. Willits was our lunch stop, but heavy smoke from a forest fire made it a quick one. We saw lots of fire trucks and fire pickups heading south, so we assume it was mostly out, but the smoke was heavy and thick. Amazing how much of 101 had been rebuilt from all the slides, in fact one of the big tourist traps I...

Jun 28, 2012 - Northern California

We are in Klamath, the trip here was beautiful through huge redwoods and glimpses of the Pacific. As usual on Hwy 101 is narrow with lots of curves, Bill does well driving this big rig. Yesterday we toured an older Redwood Forest, it's hard to describe the beauty of these old towering trees, when I have better Internet service I will download some photos. The weather has been very cool, yesterday we all had fleece jackets on most of the day. The 'girls' had a few hours off to have haircuts, after a big lunch at a local seafood restaurant;...

Apr 11, 2012 - Tree's of mystery

This morning we left the Oregon coast for an outing back to California for the day. We were going to go visit the tree's of mystery. On our way there we stopped and got some lunch and then drove to Harris beach to eat our lunch and play around for awhile. The beach was really nice and yet again I was pleasantly surprised to find how well kept the beach was. Really nice, clean restrooms, nice picnic tables, a really clean beach and the best part of all the beach was very handicap friendly. A ramp was built to make the beach accessible for...

Nov 26, 2011 - Klamath California Redwood Forest

After a brief overnight at Gold Beach Oregon, we headed off on Saturday morning to the California border. More beautiful Oregon coast along the way traveling 168 miles. We were not disappointed by the spectacular and unspoiled coastline with small towns dotted along the way adding variety. We hit the border in the mid afternoon going through Crescent City which has a good size population for small towns.. Kept driving through Crescent city and into the start of the Redwood forest until we came to the tiny town of Klamath and our next stop...

Oct 23, 2011 - Day #46, 10-23-11

Day #46, 10-23-11 Today was not going to be too ambitious. We wanted to get close to Ferndale so Barb could do some shopping. Today is Sunday and Barb wanted to visit the shops, so close was the target. Monday we will hit Ferndale. We got up at the usual time and I started the day with walking Bridget (twice) and draining the tanks. This was the fullest we have ever been! I’ve been told I was full of it all my life! Barb was cooking breakfast while I prepared a fresh canvas for the Bugs. I was on the last ¼ can of glass cleaner, so I used...

Oct 22, 2011 - Day #45, 10-22-11

Day #45, 10-22-11 Knowing we had a long day ahead, we got up early. We actually were ready to pull out before 9:00. Before I leave for the day, I want to tell you about that Drive-In Movie screen at the end of the RV Park in Sutherlin. After dark, they project an advertisement for the park up on the screen that can be seen from the highway. Pretty clever! Ok its 8:45 and we pull up the front blind on the windshield to see a fog shrouded RV Park. I check on the laptop and find that it is foggy all the way to the coast. Visibility was...

Sep 10, 2011 - Klamath, CA

We spent the morning going up to the Klamath overlook but it was fogged in. We then took a drive to Enchanted Forrest (another tourist trap) and had a look around and then took a ride on the coastal drive where we saw elk and had a nice look at the coast. We then stopped by the drive through tree and met a couple from McKinney,TX, our home town and then a couple of guys on cycle from Austin. We returned to the RV park and the owner had three more salmon waiting for us. The guys cleaned the salmon then we had poor mans (halibut) lobster...

Sep 10, 2011 - Klamath, CA Temp 68

Finished our drive through Oregon on Route 101. We traveled the entire length of the state on this same road - the Pacific Coast Scenic Byway. The fog stayed far enough off the coast (for most of the day) that we were able to take a few good shots. They're mostly not labeled - just pictures of shore, waves, rocks. We paid attention (as we have the whole time we've been near the coastline) to entering and exiting tsunami warning zones. Also paid attention to where the evacuation routes were while we were in the zones!! We found a nice long...

Sep 9, 2011 - Klamath, CA

We all had a good time today seeing more of the redwoods. We went to the Betty Ford Grove and walked to 1 mile trail. The trees here were amazing. There had been a fire many years earlier and some of the trees had holes trough them but were still living. We went to the Klamath overlook but there was too much fog to see anything. We saw several elk today. We got three more fresh salmon and cleaned them and stored them in our freezers. We prepared halibut tonight. Again, very good....

Sep 8, 2011 - Klamath, CA

We took off early to explore the redwoods and had a great day. We drove the redwoods and stopped for pictures and took a hike to the "big tree". It was amazing to walk among these giant trees and think about how old they are. We then drove to Fern Canyon and took the walk there. It was beautiful and the number of ferns that lined the walls of the canyon was hard to believe. They told us we'd see lots of elk but the only one we saw here had only one half of a rack. We really had a nice day and came back to the RV ready for a good meal,...