A On 8th Crescent City

... to the penitentiary with, as the lady from the campground put it, 180 of our counties most dangerous criminals. The town close by, Crescent City, had the air of a once nice town which had sadly turned to a crackhead town...
We Bolted out of there after only 2 nights

This is the goal, we'll see how road conditions and traffic cooperate!
Well, almost at Crescent City despite a flying tire from a wide load trailer withing the first hour of the journey. I was in the passing lane beside the caravan of vehicles escorting the doublewide to its roost, but thankfully not within range as a rear tire bounced across my lane and into the median.
Never a dull moment. Hmm, yes there was when I was waiting for ...

To get back to the Pacific, we must drive back north into Oregon and we choose a narrow, less-traveled road near Yreka, through beautiful forests and along the ugly and murky Klamath River. Once we enter California again we start to see the huge trees of Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, but it is dark and we get a motel room in Crescent City and hope to see some more redwoods tomorrow.

... there are so many cooler spots to explore. I hope that God’s provision and protection sustains us so that we can do that for many more summers. I’m sure, at some point, we’ll have to stay home in our recliners in front of the air conditioner, but until then….let’s go!

We spent the night in Grants Pass, OR at the Rogue Valley Overniters Park. This spot was not too far off the freeway and in a very commercial area. It was a little ...

Headed to Cape Blanco this morning to eat breakfast at the beach and luckily ended up getting there at low tide, which is good tidepooling time. It is really tricky to figure out the tides here, and tidepooling (and sometimes your life!) depends on it. There are high tides, low tides, low, low tides, and minus tides, and each of these times change daily at every location. Stopped at Port Orford to learn about Battle Rock (another ...

... credible evidence to the contrary. Maybe it was real, maybe it was fake….but it sure was fun.

Moving on from the Oregon Vortex we took highway 199 most of the way through the remainder of southwest Oregon into California. I forgot to fill my gas tank while still in Oregon, because as soon as we cross the state border the gas prices went up about 35 cents per gallon (CA has very high gas taxes). Oh well.

We found a cheap place to stay (obviously ...

... white snow. Today, the crater walls are doing all they can just clinging on and refusing to be dragged off by the downpour of rain. We drove on around the "scenic rim drive", which should be re-named the "scary rim drive" when the cloud is this low. Off to our left is the cloud-covered lake, off to our right, nothing but cloud as the outer slopes of the crater fall away. When we came round to the visitor's centre we found the rangers as ...

09/07/08 Once again it's time to play catch-up. This blog contains a smorgasbord of pics coveing a number of firsts: Craig's first time turning 30 years old and his first purchase of a piece of art (now that he's sophisticated). Our first time surfing. Our first time seeing Ozomatli ...

... conveyed the sense of 'massive' that a lot of the other big trees didn't quite cover. I'm not sure exactly why that was, I just know that I personally felt more like I was in the heart of the giants driving along Howland Hill than I had on Cal Barrel or hiking (the very short distance) to the Corkscrew Tree or Big Tree. It took us somewhere around an hour to drive from town to the turn-off for Stout Grove ...

... trees and then to emerge and drive along coast and then back through forest again. At 2PM I took a hike through the Lady Bird Johnson Grove with a park ranger. A couple hours later I continued north through Redwood park. I stopped at a meadow to watch some elk. There was a big male, tow babies and many ...