RV Trip'N

Friday, July 26, 2013

Warmer Weather

Tugman State Park

We spent the last two days at Tugman State Park in Lakeside Oregon a little north of Coos Bay. It's been a very relaxing two days. We watched a couple of movies that we had brought with us and just relaxed.

We left this morning around 9:00 and again were off the road by 11:00, great travel days. We are in Gold Beach camping on the beach just north of town. The weather is great here, much warmer and less windy than north of here. Once we got parked and hooked up (water, electric and cable TV) we drove into the town to look around. Our timing was good the Curry County Fair was going on so we thought we would stop in. Being Thursday and being seniors our admission was only $3.00. We feel we certainly got our monies worth. After watching a bird show, a magician, a BMX show and going through the animal barns and the beautiful flower display we headed back home for a BBQ.

Gold Beach

Giant Condor

BMX Performers

Beautiful Oregon Flowers

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Back to the Coast

We left Junction City after the wedding and headed back to the coast. The road we took to the coast was not made for RV travel. It was very narrow and winding in spots, we were much relied when we finally made it to the coast. We spent the next two days camped at Tillicum beach at a Federal Forest campground. It was very nice and right on the ocean. The first day we got together with my brother John his wife Barb and daughter Jessie. They had rented a house on the beach for the week and were only six or seven miles from us. They stopped over to see our site and we had a BBQ lunch and then took a walk on the beach. It was chilly on the shore but the sun was out. Later that afternoon Chris and I drove over to their rental. They had a very cute two bedroom round house right on the ocean with wrap-around views it was very nice.

We drove up to the town of Newport which was large enough for a Wal-Mart. I needed to refill a prescription and that was the nearest place. On the way back my sister Judy had arrived with her family for their week at the beach. She had rented a large five bedroom home on the beach for the week. The views were fantastic. We stopped for a short visit and to say our goodbye’s as we were leaving in the morning and would not see them again until everyone was back in Minnesota.

We left this morning at 8:00 in the thick fog. There were spotty section along the coast where the Sun was out and no fog to areas of very foggy. Didn’t travel very far and were off the road for the day by 11:00. We are inland from the coast a little ways at a state park. We have a nice site and it’s much warmer than the coast and less windy as well.

Narrow bridge on scenic highway 101

light house keepers house

people enjoying the beach at one of many pull offs

Another view

Tillicum Beach campground

Tillicum Beach

Jessie Barb and John

Jessie Barb and Chris

Sunday, July 21, 2013

Beautiful Wedding

Katie and David had a beautiful day for their beautiful wedding. What a gorgeous location. The catering, flowers and music were perfect for the event. Everyone had a wonderful time.

Friday, July 19, 2013

Wedding Time

We are heading inland to Junction City where my niece Katie is getting married tomorrow. Most of the out of town visitors are staying at the Guest House Inn, I've gotten permission to park the RV in their lot and we will stay there for tonight and tomorrow. We will head back to the coast on Sunday, Wallport Or, where a lot of family members have rooms for a couple of days. We will leave there on Tuesday and continue traveling down the coast. No real plans after that.

The temperature has been all over the scale, from cold chilly evenings to hot days. Close to 90 here today and tomorrow. It is an outdoor wedding and no mention of rain so that's a good thing.