Best Western Garden Villa Motel Roseburg

Went back to Eugene then I headed to the Umpqua Forest which is central Oregon in the mountains. Ahhh, it was beautiful. Great campground with fun people who liked to play music. Great river, lakes, forest, meadows... can't really describe it all, it was nice.<br><br>One of my highlights ...

Not much to tell about Roseburg and our stay here, although it is a nice little town and the back balcony of our room looked out over the Umpqua River, with accompanying ducks and interesting birds of a sort we don't see in Alabama.  We needed to wash clothes and gather our wits before driving to Crater Lake, Mt. Shasta, and into California -- so Roseburg is it.  

... there is daily fog, their roots only go down about 12 inches and they get their water from the moisture in the air (i.e. fog). They are fast growing trees and need a lot of water. By the time the Redwoods dissapeared, the temperature skyrocketed. There was no cold, wet wind so the sun could do its job and heat everything up including me! I was on the side of the road taking off my thermal underwear ...

We are up early as we have another long day of driving. Weather is foggy but dry and still quite cold. I go down to the Chevron Station get us some coffee and after walking the dogs we push off. The farther south we go the better the weather and we have a nice drive down I-5 with easy traffic and pretty country once you are past Salem. We find a roadside diner and get a brunch and a chance to give the dogs a run. We have spoken to our ...

... mountain of Mount Shasta. By that time we were already almost 10 hours on the road, but since it was only about 3:30 at that stage we decided to push on, and make this day a really long trip - while tomorrow will then be much easier. We pushed through to Roseburg in Oregon - 12 hours later we are sitting in a road side inn, exhausted, and glad that tomorrow's trip will be much easier, and shorter too Seattle.

... which is now a national park and looks a lot closer than it really is due to its size, and through the forested Whiskeytown-Shasta-Trinity Recreation Area. Those are actually three separate lakes with surrounding recreation areas and I pass through the Shasta Lake area. Not much farther north and I cross the border into Oregon. Initially it's still mountainous but the landscape soon levels out and I'm passing through ...

Well, we are gearing up for this summer's adventure early..... Its a whole 5 months before we depart, but as the boy scouts say " Be Prepared". We have our airline tickets locked down and the dates are set! I have been reading travel books galore, as well as travel blogs, web-sites and maps. There is so much to see in Vietnam, our ...

... elk, though we think it was just an impressive deer), a rabbit and/or hare, and a vulture. Oregon takes the award for odd livestock: we've seen llamas and/or alpacas; ostrich and/or emu; and something we're still not sure of. We obviously need some help on identifying animals. And still no yeti sightings (though there was a split second doubletake once, until we realized it was just a dude w/ a ponytail and beard getting into his hyundai). Blog out, for today.

... growing good grapes. He hopes to have his first crop this fall and I'm sure he'll make very good wine. We spent three days enjoying his and his super companion Gail's hospitality... Mick is a great cook so we enjoyed both his wine and the food both he and Gail prepared. Monday afternoon we did a tour of the area and stopped at a large winery which was very, very nice. We also stopped at a dam in Roseburg and watched the salmon moving up ...

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