Rose City Motel Roseburg

... I don't have pictures of is driving several miles into the forest on forest service roads and on the way back I got to take my bike out and ride it 8 or so miles down the mountain. What a rush!

So, music, hot springs, lakes, bike rides, kite flying, and just down home relaxing.

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.  

... sleeved cotton shirt and a fleece jacket. On top of this my jeans and motorcycle jacket. This was still not warm enough so I put on my rain suite which kept the moisture (fog) out. The highpoints of this part of the trip was hugging a redwood tree, walking amongst them and driving though the Redwood National Park. You can see from the pictures just how big they are. I went for a trail walk (.8 mile ...

... in our coach in the parking lot! We had a quick visit told them where we were staying and they said they come down and join us and the other three couples for dinner. We left Roseburg and into Seven Feathers RV Resort. Set up and then we made our way over to the casino for a buffet dinner. There was 10 of us for dinner. Great fun lots of laughs. Played in the casino for awhile and then back to the coach to relax and walk the dogs. We ...

Today was a long drive up towards Vancouver, we planned to drive most of California State, and find accomodation close to the border of CA & Oregon. But a little Jet lag set in, and we were up at about 5 this morning, deciding to finish up and get going. We travelled the interstate 5 the whole way - since that is most direct, and quickest way. The first part of CA was not very interesting, reminding us of ...

... 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 ...

... itinerary changes constantly. The thought of actually experiencing the places I have read about seems like a nice daydream..... I am both excited and nervous. I can only aniticipate the experience and cannot wait for the reality of being back in the homeland, a place I have never known but I feel it inside of me somehow. Kelly

... once at the lodge in Crater Lake and once at our hotel in Roseburg. Both lasted only a few moments, but no weather to speak of -- what's up w/ Oregon? We've been tracking wildlife seen since we left. It got pretty boring back east so we expanded it to animals seen -- cows and/or cattle; horses; mules and/or donkeys; various rodents; various birds. Didn't get interesting until the bighorn sheep in Colorado. We've since added some deer (and possibly ...

... 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 ...

... spaghetti dinner. The next day we went shopping and had lunch at McGrath's Fish House. Ewwww, don't have the extremely greasy Fish & Chips!! We spent the rest of this rainy day (Saturday) at the movies. Saw Sideways and it was great!! Too funny! Now we can't wait to get to Napa Valley and do some wine tasting!!