Jun 27, 2012 - The First Day's Journey Home

Some days just don't go as planned. Yesterday, we planned to leave fairly early, stop in Vancouver, WA and have lunch with our friends, Barb and Tim and then drive to North Bend, OR to meet my online friend, Leslie Miller. No. Didn't go that way. We left Shannon and Ron's home at the appointed time and stopped to get gas. I noticed that the temperature gauge was elevated only after driving 3 miles. I wondered if maybe Jiffy Lube had forgotten to put a cap on the radiator after changing the oil and filling all the fluids just two days...

Jun 23, 2011 - Day 23 - Sea Lions

Today we started the day by visiting the Coos Bay Art Museum. They had art a motorcycle display. Jay enjoyed looking at the motorcycles and pictures. I enjoyed the art too, just not as much as Jay. No pictures allowed so I got one of the desk, but that was it. We then headed over to the Myrtlewood factory to see what they made. Myrtlewood is a very hard wood, good for crafts and furniture. Beautiful works of art. I purchased a small cheese cutting board for use with the cheese we will buy in Tillamook and a Christmas ornament. Then it was...

Jun 22, 2011 - Day 22 - North Bend, OR

The day started foggy and lazy. We checked out of Harris Beach SP about 11am and went south to Fred Meyer for gas. Topped off with our Kroger savings 33 gal @ 3.499 a gal for a total of $119. Then we headed up to the rest area to connect the car and off we went north. Foggy most of the way, but not severe and 1 stop for flag person. We arrived at Mill Casino RV lot about 3:00, ate a late lunch hooked up the electric, water & cable and took a nap. Up from the nap we gathered a week of dirty laundry and walked across the parking lot to start...

Aug 19, 2010 - North Bend, Oregon

Thought we would try a casino stop over "Mill Casino" at North Bend - we don't gamble but they usually have a nice RV parking facilities at reasonable cost - after checking in and paying $27.00 a night we discovered we could have parked in the parking lot for RV that doesn't have service for free? We could have just used the generator and batteries - Oh well we will try that the next time, we did go and have the early bird special for dinner and joined the Millionaires Club and got $3.00 each extra discount though. This place is right on...

Jul 3, 2009 - Drive to Oregon Coast

Thought we would take a ride to the coast today and see what we could see. Started out on Rt 42 west - what a beautiful ride with super straight, tall, Douglas Firs accompanying us all the way. Saw some logging areas and areas of second growth. We passed a sign for a town called "Remote" with an RV park called Remote Outpost - I'll say! By now the temperature had dropped from 90 to 59 degrees. We were wearing shorts and figured we would freeze when we got to the coast. When we hit Coquille Bay we saw logs in the river. Wonder where they...

Jun 4, 2009 - Great Seafood Place in North Bend

Today was rainy and overcast all day. Doug celebrated by sleeping until 10AM. JoAnn went to Wally World at 8:45 to get her hair cut. Fillmore woke Doug up barking at JoAnn when she got back. Guess he wanted to protect his food guy. The rain didn’t let up so we couldn’t do any sight seeing as the rain was accompanied by fog. Shortly afternoon JoAnn went back to WW to get a pedicure. Doug stayed at home and wrote some more on his story. The computer Doug is using is still acting up big time. We will have to find a town with a repair shop that...

Jun 3, 2009 - Computer Problem

It was another gray drizzly day in SW Oregon and we tried to take full advantage of it by doing nothing but we failed. We placed some orders on line and arranged to have them delivered to our next stop. Shortly after noon we went to Wally World for some food items. They didn’t have all we wanted so we stopped at an Albertsons but they too did not carry what we were looking for. Back home Doug took our “old” computer down to Robbie’s. We have been having a lot of trouble with it not maintaining a good connection to its power supply and we...

Jun 2, 2009 - Another Lighthouse

JoAnn is determined to view all the light houses in Oregon. At first thought, Doug groaned internally figuring that there must be thousands of lighthouses in this state. But arriving at Umpqua Lighthouse today, he saw a map that listed only nine and he realized that we have already seen three of those on this trip. His sense of foreboding is diminished. There is a museum in the Umpqua Lighthouse complex and we wondered through it. The second floor is dedicated to the history of the US Coast Guard through most of last century. There is an...

Jun 1, 2009 - Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge at Coquille Point

Doug got up at the crack of ten. That was considerably better than yesterday. We went to the PO and picked up our stuff in general delivery. Doug got a new pair of trucker suspenders so now he’s really something. What, you don’t know what trucker suspenders are? Every full time RVer needs them. They are suspenders that hook onto pants at the hips and then over the shoulders. They loop around the arms and have a cross piece in the back to keep the loops from falling down the arms. The big advantage is that the heavy metal clips don’t dig...

May 31, 2009 - We are definitely not in the desert anymore!

It was normal northwest weather today: overcast and chilly. Doug slept very late and it was around noon before we took off touring. We headed south along the beach to Shore Acres Garden. This is a SP that was the garden of an Oregon timber baron from the last half of the 19th century. It is a well manicured garden and today it was blooming with azaleas, rhododendrons, some roses and other plants we didn’t recognize. JoAnn got tons of pictures of their splendor. After the park we walked along the rim of the ocean in the park. Later we drove...

May 30, 2009 - On the Oregon Coast

Today was moving day and JoAnn and Fillmore got Doug up early for the event. When he went outside to start the tear down procedure, he met Greg and Rosalie who were our camp hosts and out doing their AM check of the camp. They are the parents of Diane who we met at Q and again Borrego Springs. We had a nice chat and were sorry that it was so short. They are heading up to northern Oregon for another camp hosting job so maybe we will run into them again this year. Our trip today was hilly and twisty-turny. We averaged right around 50 mph with...

Jun 7, 2008 - On the Beach, In the Mountains, In the dunes

6-7-08 Got up this morning at 0600 to a “THUMP”.....WACK....”THUMP”......WACK......”THUMP”. Jethro Bodine was next door choppin wood for Granny’s possum stew breakfast while Uncle Jed was feeding Elly May’s screaming baby a bottle. AHHHH, State Campgrounds. I love em. I figured I might as well go get the car so I got dressed and headed down the street. Passed a camp site with a car load of angora long eared bunnies stacked in cages from floor to ceiling. Must be some kind of Oregon hunt club thing. The car was OK so I brought it back to the...