Category Archives: 2013 Oregon & N Cal coast

We left Ashland Sunday 22 Sep and headed to Arcata. On the way, we stopped at the Tiger Preservation Center in Cave Junction, OR (see the separately posted photo). The trip might have been scenic but it was overcast and gloomy with not much visibility. We stayed the night in the Mad River Rapids RV Park, which is clean and fairly featureless. It does have respectable wifi (I am still working and need to connect up). It rained most of the night – we were snug in our nation.

On Monday after I finished work, we headed south. We paused to take in the sights in Eureka and took a spin on the Avenue of the Giants. We took one to the coast and ended up in Fort Bragg around 5:30. We stayed at the Pomo RV Park. It was unique in several ways – lots of greenery separating the sites, recycling containers, and a list of farmers’ markets.

Today, after I finished work, we set out for home pausing in the Anderson Valley at the Brutocao to pick up my wine shipment.

Last night, we cooked the five large trout that we got from Ron and Idey, our neighbors in the Hat Creek Resort, as thanks for a bottle of Moose Drool (a beer from Montana, which the store at the resort carried).

I wanted to give a shout-out for JJ’s Cafe in Old Station (Lassen National Forest) open for breakfast and lunch. Great food and great people. When we arrived, we had to choose breakfast or lunch. They were doing breakfast but if we wanted lunch, they would switch over to lunch. We selected breakfast, a good choice. They cure their own corned beef, and smoke pastrami and pulled pork.

Today, we leave Serenity Falls to head down the lost coast to stay tonight in Arcata. We hope for a scenic drive.

Yesterday, we motored up from Lassen National Forest to Ashland for a shared birthday dinner with Melissa (9/22) at Marty and Spike’s. We were pleased to meet Melissa’s friend Ruthie. This morning we were visited by a deer and fawn. This sure is a wild town.

We are in the no-name RV once again, heading for Ashland with a stop at Hat Creek RV Park in Lassen National Forest. This is the last RV trip before our big trip to Europe and the trans-Atlantic crossing, which I hope to be diligent in blogging.

Thanks to the Verizon jetpack I can blog on the road! with my oh-so-light Mac Book Air!

As we set out on this last RV trip for this year, I want to list the trips we’ve done this year (for our benefit).

In rented Navion – Mar 16 to Sacramento for COB’s St Pat’s party, 2 nights in Sacramento, 1 night in RV park at Clear Lake, 2 nights in Candi’s driveway, and 1 night in RV park at Bodega Bay. This trip was to validate our interest in RVing – and it did. And this trip was the one that Suzette decided she was not interested in RVing. Not only did she camp out in Candi’s backyard for a day, she makes herself very scarce whenever she senses we are packing up to hit the road.

We’d hoped to go to the Antioch reunion (Yellow Springs, OH in June) in the purchased RV, but it did not show up on time. We had a lovely trip to Ohio by plane. We plan to go to the reunion next year in the Navion.

July 2, we pick up the Navion from the dealer in Vacaville. We’ll talk about the dealer one of these days.

Our first trip was a weekend (July 16-17*) to Fernwood Resort in Big Sur. Nice wooded RV park, crowded, lots of families & groups. Nice store and great restaurant. No wifi or cell phone signal. (*Time to recover from surgery Jul 3.)

Next trip was Jul 26 for COB birthday party in Sacramento. Landed from 5 days in New Jersey (business) at 1:30 SFO, on the road by about 5 (Friday traffic – argh). One night in Sacramento, then to Canyon Creek RV park (Winters) on Putah Creek near Berryessa.

August 7th, off to Pioneer for 1 night at Bryan’s, 2 nights in Fallen Leaf Lake campground (very pretty), and 3 nights at Cheryl’s in Truckee (travel book group meeting, Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, soaring / glider ride – whoo!).

August 24th, Delta Shores RV Park (Isleton) for 3 nights. Good wifi & phone signal. Nothing else going on. Very restful. (Maybe a toad would help.)

September is birthday month. Big party for Marty Sep 1st. JAM luncheon in Sausalito Sep 10th. Jessie party Sep 15th. And this weekend is Melissa (22) & Jessie (21) birthdays in Ashland. And Glee (23) in Phoenix.

Going to wrap this up now.