Cute Cottage Coos Bay

... back to the coast and met up with Highway 1, where we drove the coastal road to Bodega Bay.

This road trip along the coast has been a huge highlight of our trip. The wildlife and views are really amazing. We were lucky enough to get to see wild Elk and also a Bobcat which ran across the road in front of our car. Luckily it escaped!

... at the Mill Casino about 4 miles from Wild Mare. Then, Saturday night we dry camped at Wild Mare, but returned to the RV park at the Mill Casino, this time with full hook-ups for Sunday night.

The time at Wild Mare was full of great food, campfires and great company. They rode horses a couple of times a day and also had a bunch of ATVs for fun on the sand dunes.

... Bandon By The Sea and searched for agates on the beach, then drove the Beach Loop looking at Face Rock and other rock stacks along the coast. Headed down to the tide pools once again until getting in to our campground a little further south in time to swim and soak in the hot tub. No grocery stores anywhere around so it was boxed mac and cheese made on the cabin porch

... cedar, yellow pine, and in really moist areas, hemlock. Quite a lovely sight on the sheltered side of a mountain.
Coming down out of the Cascade Range,the air grew warmer and moister, the vegetation more lush and jungle like. I got to the interstate, I-5, about rush hour and drove home the rest of the way in a welter of cars whose drivers were all intent on getting home, as was I. But, first a fill-up of the track's gas tank. What a surprise! Gas was $2.74 a gallon ...

Yessss.... well, Coos Bay was really just a stop over on our drive up the coast. Apparently it is the biggest town on the coast, but let me tell you, it's not much to stop for! We needed cash, so we stopped at an ATM but it was not just any ATM it was a DRIVE THRU! Can you believe that there are so many drive thru atm's around?!?! Such lazy people cant even get out the car to get money... ridiculous! Mike was loving it ...

With months of preparations we are finally on the road. The last two days have been absolutely hectic with saying our goodbyes and packing the van. It turned out we were rushing to make our deadline, a habit we are both finding difficult to break. No more schedules, but once in again we were running around Victoria.   Our first excursion for our fuel was an experience, to say the least. It turned out the device that we made to pump the oil was not quite working as expected ...

... hosts and other people or camp where some of those people turn out to be very loud, screaming obscenities on the top of their lungs, screaming about shooting people. They were so obnoxious that five families camping around us left. Of the five, four of us talked both the the couples who were partying and to the camp host.  Nothing happened all night, they partied and screamed from 2pm thru 10:30. I got Isa in the house and we stayed there all evening without going out ...

Day 16 - October 2 Hills and rain are all today held for us. It rained as we conquered 7 Devil's Road.(Each hill is numbered a different devil as you make your way up a windy ridge) We arrived here in Bandon around 12:30 and decided we would stay at a hostel for the night being that we're about to get wet for the next three days ...

... than California, and they give full service at the pump (not allowed to do self-serve, completely the opposite of where we'd just been). Over the next few days, the other thing we were to notice was that Oregan doesn't have sales tax - a nice respite. The tax thing always trips us up - the price tag says something, then you're hit with ...

When I woke it was still raining, but by 9:00 am it stopped, so I got underway in a south westerly direction attempting to reach the Pacific coast where the weather forecast appeared to look better. After I started it began to rain within a couple of blocks, as I entered Oregon, but I carried on and wound my way down one of the most enjoyable roads ever. It twisted and turned continuously for hours. It was very tiring, but ...