May 1, 2013 - Happy Camping!

We left Redding this morning where the weather guessers are predicting temps up into the 90's for the rest of the week, and headed north into Oregon. We traveled Highway 5 for the first time. John has never been in this part of California before. -- Mt. Shasta got closer and closer and more magnificent as the miles passed. After about an hour of driving, we were right next to her. At over 14,000 ft., there is still a lot of snow up there. In the distance, we could see other snow capped mountains which, according to the maps, are in the...

Aug 22, 2012 - Following the Rogue River

After we left Crater Lake National Park, we opted to drive home via Highway 62, also known as the Crater Lake Highway (see map from previous post) back to Grants Pass. We were totally unprepared for the absolutely stunning terrain as well as learn more about the Rogue River we were traveling beside the entire route. The Rogue River begins its 215 mile journey right near Crater Lake National Park and empties in the Pacific Ocean at Gold Beach. We took pics of the river with rafters in it when we took the Bear Camp Road return after the...

Jun 28, 2012 - Day Trip: Shady Cove, OR

John is awake before the alarm goes off. He is going fishing! We leave the campground. We turn left. We go over the bridge into Gold Hill. We turn onto Route 234. “John, this is the Umpqua Rogue Scenic Byway.” Of course, it is 3:30 in the morning and DARK! We have no trouble finding Shady Cove and the fish hatchery. We miss one turn but it is an easy turnaround. Not bad for us. We do not normally drive in the dark. Anglers are crazy. You are not allowed to fish until one hour before sunup. Wading anglers are lined up in the water fishing....

Jun 13, 2012 - Crater Lake

Yesterday, we were up and on the road just a little after 6:00 am. It started out being pretty foggy on the coast, but as we headed inland, there was blue skies and sunshine mixed with white puffy clouds. We climbed up and over the Coast Range once again, following the Swift River mostly through the canyon. It was a gorgeous drive with just one area a bit hairy: extremely narrow and windy. John was happy he didn't meet a logging truck in that area. -- We passed into Oregon and John began watching for gasoline prices that were lower than...

Sep 5, 2010 - Crater Lake, OR

September 5, Day 3 Rogue River RV Park Shady Cove, Oregon We visited Crater Lake and brrr was it cold (42 degrees!!) We walked along the rim trail keeping a tight grip on Little Bear’s leash as she liked to jump the low stone wall along the rim. We held her up so she could see the vivid blue lake 1,000 feet below (the lake is 1900 feet deep at its deepest point). We drove back on the Volcanic Legacy Scenic Byway through Fort Klamath (only a few buildings) though the greenest cow pastures I’ve ever seen and along Upper Klamath Lake before...

Sep 4, 2010 - Ashland, OR

September 4 Day 2 Rogue River RV Park Shady Cove, Oregon Ashland is a very charming town! We walked along Main Street and shopped at a side street of street vendors. Scott took Little Bear to a park across the street where they saw a deer and her faun cross the street. Later Little Bear had a great time romping in Ashland’s extraordinarily large dog park. She ran on the cool grass, rested under the shade of mature trees but declined to splash in the doggie pools! From Ashland we drove north through Talent and Phoenix to Jacksonville -...

Sep 3, 2010 - Shady Cove, OR

September 3 Rogue River RV Park Shady Cove, Oregon We expect to log 5,000 miles and spend fifteen days in transit (driving 4 to 7 hours a day) this trip. Diversions are welcome on long hauls and Scott noticed a trail of tomatoes on the right shoulder of freeways 505 and 5 this morning. Mostly single intact specimens every few hundred feet interspersed with the occasional 20-30 tomato dump. We had a good time tomato spotting for 100 miles! I had fun taking photos through the windshield and passenger window today. I captured a barn on the...

Jul 14, 2009 - Day 34 - Eureka to Shady Cove, OR

Today: 210 miles Total: 6745 miles Dee: (We got back late last night and I was too tired to write at 11:00, but I wanted to put down some thoughts about our anniversary day) As you all know…Dale is the romantic of us…TMI It’s a beautiful morning and so many emotions are hitting me today. First is…of course, our 25th anniversary and it seems like it just crept up on us before we knew it. Honestly, I can remember our wedding day like it was yesterday. It was Friday July 13th and on top of that it was the last full moon of the month. Dale and...

Jun 2, 2009 - Crater Lake and Klamath ("Where are the Falls?") Falls

June 2, 2009 The plan today is to drive over to Crater Lake, which is a little over 50 miles from here. We got off to a slow start, not leaving until about 10:00, but we made good time on the way. We were driving through forest again. We stopped at a place called the Rogue River Gorge. When I heard “gorge” I had imagined a 1000 foot drop down to the Rogue River , but when we got there it was a chasm but a lot closer to us than I had expected. While they are not absolutely sure, they think the 500 foot long chasm was formed when a lava tube...

Jun 1, 2009 - Travel Day from Nevada to Rogue River RV park

June 1, 2009 359.7 miles today. 2351.1 miles total. Travel day today, but one of the prettiest we have had in a long time. We passed 2000 miles today. We got off to a little late start for us, around 10:00, saying goodbye to a pretty nice Desert Rose RV Park. If you have to stop in Fernley, the Desert Rose isn’t a bad place to be. We hopped onto I-80 toward Reno, and then caught the now-familiar Hwy 395 to Susanville. We had to see Susanville, in honor of my beautiful bride. The road from Reno to Susanville is mostly desert, but there are...

Sep 24, 2008 - Finally on the road with our new Simba coach.

We finally was able to get back on the road. Sure is nice riding in our new coach. We headed back over to Sunriver to show Don & Dorene our new coach. We stayed over night then headed out for California. We took RT 58 across. In Oakdale to get a bit to eat While we were there some of the customers started to talk about the fire that just started up south of the town. We asked if the road was closed and they said if we got started now we could make it across before they shut it down, so we got on the road right away. You could see the heavy...

Oct 22, 2007 - shady cove camp

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