Tuesday 7/28/09

Drove to a breakfast camp on the river in Florence. We have had a few meals along the river here and enjoyed everyone of them. After a walk through town we go and fill up the gas tanks. The cheapest gas for a few years now has been in Florence. At the Fred Meyer with a 10 cent per gallon discount we paid $2.37 a gallon. We drive on into Lincoln City and eat supper at the Casino. Tuesday is one of the coupon days so we eat out. Then we head home.

Monday 7/27/09

We spent last night at a golf course. Now this was a plac e I found on the internet at the Free and cheap RV places. The thing I liked about it was the deer that were there. Well we never saw any deer there but Sophie found some large white rocks in the stream that ran through the course. She thought we should not take them. Good move too since our tires were giving us trouble without the extra weight.



Drove into Bandon for some smoked salmon abd then to the Bullard State Park where we had lunch. Took a tour of the Coquille River Lighthouse. It is still fun to go up in the park where the light use to be and look around.



We then drove to Shore Acres State Park. This is a formal garden built by a man who had a large house from wood collected on the shore from ships in the ocean. And of course I did find a Classic Winnebago along the way.







In Florence we stopped along the river for a supper camp and used the WIFI that Florence has. Then we spent the night at the Three Rivers Casino. Another free dry camp area at another Casino.

7/26/2009

What a day we had today. After eating and cleaning up we drove to Cresent City, CA. We had never been there before and it was foggy on the coast so off we went. Do not bring fresh fruit or vegitables into CA. They stop you at the border and check you. And in Cresent City the sun was out. At the visitors center we learned about the light houses so we had to see them. the first one you could walk out to at low tide so we still had

time to get to it before the water covered the trail. And then we drove up the coast where we stoped and had lunch and a few walks on the beach.

After that we drove up Hwy 199 into the Redwoods. We found a place to stop and walk around several very large trees. I guess these trees were only a thousand years old but they were still very impressive.

After looking at the trees we drove back into Oregon. Stopped in Brookings and took pictures of a Classic Winnebago made into a kitchen.

But it was closed.

7/25/2009

Had a great night at the Dry dock in Port Orford.

This is where we spent Friday night.

Drove on down the Oregon Coast to Brookings where we got a spot to spend the night at the Elks lodge. There were even a few empty places. We then had to find the beach where we picked up special white rocks last year. I think the moved it but we found it anyway.

7/24/2009

We spent the last two nights in North Bend (Coos Bay) at the Mill Casino. They have free dry camping. Today we drove out to the Sunset bay State Park. The weather was finnaly clear and sunny. We parked down by the water and stayed untill it got foggy (a few hours). Then we drove to bandon where it was very windy and sunny.

Then we drove to Port Orford (PO). We have always liked PO but had never stayed here since it was windy and all the State Campgrounds were full. But I remebered seeing a sign down buy the docks so we checked it out. Great place to dry camp for $10.00. Take a look.

7/23/2009

We are in Coos Bay, OR. Spent last night and probably tonight at the Mill Casino Dry camping lot (FREE). But no WIFI until we go down town. The new tires are rolling right along. We got one new tire (less than a year old) free and I bought a new one for our spare. They are both on the front so we should be set with tires for many years.

Sophie is in Macy's and said she will be back in an hour or so. Since I have WIFI she can take here time. I might have to fire up the generator if takes more power for the computer.

We are not sure where we are headed next. The weather on the coast has been foggy or sunny and windy, or foggy and windy and right now it is OK. We just might stay here longer.

7/21/2009

After a week off from vacationing with Wilbur, we were condo camping, we are back on the road.

Well I had a problem yesterday. We drove from home to the coast (Lincoln City, OR) and after visiting the casino we returned to Wilbur only to be told by another RV'r of the bulge on our right front tire. Great, it's 530 and the dealer I need to take it to is 30miles away in Newport Oregon.

The decision is made, after calling everyone who would answer the phone, to drive slowly towards the shop and stay at the Elks lodge in Newport. The shop owner is an Elks member and even called the lodge to make sure they had space for me.

So at 20MPH we drive to the lodge, and spend the night wondering if the tire would blow, or just go flat. In the morning all was good and drove to the shop where they have the new tire to be in at 8:00AM. They even put my old spare on and said to come back in the morning for our free replacement tire. I will also be buying a new tire for a spare. The spare I had was an old tire.

Then last night the bathroom and bedroom light quit working. Of course I fixed it today by pushing the fuse back in place. So we spent a day looking at the ocean.