Riverside Inn Resort Grants Pass

... the market were 3 or 4 floors of shops. Near the Market was the Seattle Art Museum. I hope we can come back one day and visit it.
Leaving Seattle we drove past Mariner's Safeco Field and the Seahawk's Quest Stadium. Traffic picked up into Portland and Eugene. Our day ended in Grants Pass, Oregon. Nice place to end it.

... die Weinberge hoch Richtung Oregon nach Williams. Auf Grund eines technischen Fehlers sind wir dann mit reichlich Verspaetung in Williams angekommen. Heute haben wir dann eine Tagestour zum Crater Lake unternommen, dem tiefsten See der Staaten. Schaut euch einfach die Bilder der letzten Tage an. Viel Spass.

This was an unexpected highlight brought to me by Tamami, who found it on the web. An entire hotel and resort entirely in the trees. Well, sort of. Most of the rooms are up in the trees, some as much as 40 feet, and some even have water and bathroom facilities. The whole place has been around for over 20 years and they have been adding on rooms and things to do ever ...

... on the going and returning, but stayed at home otherwise...it's only about a one hour drive OW). A couple other friends also were there and showed their horses and/or mules. Stephanie and her daughters Samantha and Jessie did very well with their mules, winning lots of ribbons and prizes. Madi got several ribbons and a nice silver belt buckle.

The week before the horse show, Sami, Madi and I drove down to the 'R' Ranch, where they had just purchased a ...

... We walked around for a bit at Portland - not a whole lot there either. Decided not to stay there cos we had some time to make up so we kept driving - said we'd stop at 7pm wherever we were haha. So we ended up staying at a super 8 at Creswell about an hour south of Salem. The guy at the front desk was hilarious - he loved our accents so just kept on ...

... I looked for a place to kip for the night. A vista seemed like a good place so I parked up with a decent view and laid back to watch a movie on the laptop. An hour later I'm being lit up like a firework. Car lights and spotlights trained on me, I see someone get out of the car and walk over. A Police Officer knocked on the window and asked me if I was ok. Told him was just resting and ...

... Yolis bar and restaurant is a great place to relax with some drinks and good food. This is a family run place where locals and repeat tourists are regulars. Yolis great grandmother bought the land for coconut oil and some cash. Her family are amongst the oldest families in the area. Great people! Excellent Chinese Food restaurant says it all. Yummy! and cheap. The locals eat there. Myrtles is kind of hard to find it didn't have a sign but good Johnny Cakes for ...

Well we have 2 weeks before we leave for Sacramento, where we fly out of on the 17th. We will be heading to Denver first where we will spend the night with our girls Ashley and Lindsay. On the 18th we fly to Belize. When we get to Belize City we are to be met by a driver who will wisk us away to the water taxi. The water taxi will take us to Caye Caulker where we will stay 2 nights at Lee Side Villas. On Friday morning we board a sail boat bound for Placencia. The tour is ...

... Greyhound service so I know I will rent a car to get to that area of interest. I have reserved approximately $40 city bus fares for the first month, $75 for Greyhound intercity service and approximately $465 for car rentals for the month. The budget after all primary expenses are reserved: My monthly budget will be approximately $2,000-$3,000/month all the above expenses shown above will leave me around $1,100 and that does not include food or gasoline for rental car ...

... to Depoe, OR rain in the early morning and then partially cloudy deteriorating into storm at the end of the day. Dove back up along the dunes, Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area 503-271-3611 stretching 44 miles from North Bend (just N of Coos Bay) to Florence which has an Old Town area along Bay St. I photographed the elegant Siuslaw River Bridge (Oregon Coast Highway), constructed in the 1930's by a WPA crew, boasting Gothic piers with metal finials and archways ...