Motel 6 Klamath Falls

... surrounded by 2000 foot cliffs. The colour of the lake was such a spectacular blue and in the shallows at the lake verge you could see the clarity of the water. There is road called Rim Drive that circles the lake so we headed west to Watchman Peak, a 1.4 mile round trip hike with a 500 foot elevation and the trail was covered in snow. It was a great hike with a spectacular viewpoint over the lake. We stayed up the top for about 45 minutes just soaking it all in and speaking to a ...

Great things happened today.....
First...New camera. We were at the super Wal-mart at 6:30am and were back on the road at 7 with a working camera. Here was a perfect example of small town friendly people. We had a 10 minute conversation with the "greeter" at the Wal-mart about a bowl she was given at a friend's mother's funeral....yes that really happened. Second...NO RAIN. Woohoo!! and finally....we road over 700km's and butt is ...

So we left our cute little cabin in the woods, grabbed some delicious oatmeal and souvenirs from the gift shop, and headed out for our scenic drive through King's Canyon. Again, very windy, and kind of sketchy at times with cliffs and no guardrails, but absolutely beautiful. It took about 45 minutes to get down to the bottom, and the last 10 or so miles ran next to the King’s River; cold, gorgeous, and full of rapids and boulders. We wanted to try ...

... to hike but gave up for mosquito's.

My car overheated in the woods.

We had Chinese and met my college friend.

We took a day trip to Crater Lake, Grant's Pass, Medford & Ashland (following entry).

We left Klamath Falls heading north towards Bend & Mt. Hood.

After the long drive from Portland, we picked up a U-Haul and loaded everything to be taken to the new apartment, and left a few things. My stomach was still a bit off, so when I had shrimp and beer for lunch I was just being a dumb-ass. After a few hours of loading we were off again.

Today was off to a late start. The star left around 1000 from Las Vegas, NV. From there we flew into Klamath Falls air national guard base. The scenery is breath taking!! In the distance a single snow capped mountains stands to the south. We head north through the wilderness. twisting and turning the road throws are car. further along we travel until finally hiting the intersection drive of our place of rental.

Klamath Falls is where I was going to school at the time - OIT (Oregon Institute of Technology). I left from my apartment in downtown after moving all of my things to a temporary holder since I wasn't coming back and packing up everything for my trip. It was a drive up to Bend which I've done many times through thick woods and passing through no town bigger than 1000 on the way. I had much left to do before my trip, and I might as well begin to enjoy my summer break.

... after about five or six death wobbles I finally lost it. In one last ditch effort to save the yard sale I put my right foot down and gassed it. There was a rock the size of a bowling ball buried under the dirt powder and after my front tire bounced off it, it was all over. I went down pretty hard into a cloud of dust I couldn't see through. My right leg was stuck under the rear of the bike and as the dust settled I noticed ...

... thought had to be the biggest stoners on the planet...I have been completely dead wrong all this time. Nathanial has got to be THE BIGGEST STONER in the world. It started off when I got in his car, I mean his eyes were RED, and he was hilarious, I mean he just started talking A LOT, I couldn't even get a word in...then he he turns down this road and says, oh we have to pick up my baby boy from day care, we get to the day care and he pulls ...

... through just fine and had lots of fun. I'm now just west of Steven's Pass in Skykomish, WA. I don't have time to upload pictures here, and won't for some time, but when I do you'll see how absolutely amazing the Cascades are. Weather has not been great to this point. We got snowed and rained on the first full day out of Canada. It's been mostly cloudy since but with enough sunbreaks to see Glacier Peak and countless others. It's been in the low 30's each ...