October 2019

The halfway point on the Oregon Coast is the Umpqua River. Everything north of the Umpqua River is considered the Oregon North Coast and everything south of the Umpqua river is considered the Oregon South Coast. We are staying at the Umpqua Dunes — Douglas County RV Park, just south of the Umpqua Dunes State […]

We are heading southbound on the Oregon Coast. The best description is that we are southbound on the north half of the Oregon coast. Much of our stay at Fort Stevens was in the rain. We did get a few breaks in the rain but it started up again earnestly when we broke camp and

We are experiencing a true-life situation; similar to the Lewis and Clark Expedition at nearly the same location (of course, our living conditions are much more refined). The waves are high and the weather is stormy on the Oregon Coast.  We are further west than where Lewis and Clark built Fort Clatsop and closer to

Boring – Oregon is really the name of the town and we love it. Mount Hood After you get to the west side of Mount Hood, as we anticipated everything is green. We are just north of the “official” end of the Oregon Trail, which we visited while we were here.  The pioneers started fanning

I am very thankful we didn’t have to walk. The Oregon Trail ends in Oregon City and we are there Saturday. From our location, pioneers went south and homesteaded in Oregon. The Lewis and Clark Trail ends (which is a dumb thing to say because it is only the half-way point) at the Pacific Ocean