Oregon has some great state forests which are treated very similarly to their bigger brother, the national forests – at least when it comes to their allowance of dispersed camping. We needed a place to spend our work week again, so Kerri set her keen eye to work on the...
As we drove up the coastal highway we were just about to pass Cape Lookout State Park. Although the sign was making a very clear statement with the “Campground Full” sign out, we popped in anyway. Pulling up to the Ranger station I inquired if there was a cancellation in...
It’s been a while since we have spent a night at a roadside rest area, but after leaving our forest site and driving for hours to pickup water and trying to find a spot to crash for the night, we settled on the nice rest area just south of Tillamook,...
Clean and fresh, we left civilization in pursuit of a spot to spend the work week… now, I don’t know if any of you have been keeping track, but since leaving the Moose Lodge in La Pine, we have camped in a different nearly every single night. Only once, at...
Instead of staying another night in the forest, we re-joined the asphalt highway and pointed ourselves North. An hour’s drive up the coast is the Rogue Brewery and the Port of Newport Marina and RV Park. Although it was a plain-jane asphalt parking lot with many other rigs parked about, we did...
We wanted to stay near the coast for the mild summer temperatures, but that doesn’t mean we have to stay in the established campgrounds. We were not alone in the thinking about the heat wave, and all campgrounds were either full or near full, and honestly we would rather be...
We really wanted to stay up in the mountains of Oregon for the summer, but their elevations are simply too low for the heat wave coming in. It was going to be in the mid 90’s at the 4400 foot elevations. With only a 3 degree drop for every 1000...
We arrived in in La Pine, Oregon safe and sound. The city, not large at all but tons of traffic, has an auto parts store to get the part for Big Blue. It’s a part that I have replaced one before, and I didn’t expect it to take too long...
Following the success of our last river-boondocking spot, we wanted more water in our view. We knew the chances of matching our swimming hole was nonexistent, but a creek/stream/river always adds something special to a spot in the woods. So with that ammunition, Kerri scoured the satellite maps and pinpointed...
The Cascade-Siskiyou Ntnl Monument has eluded me for years. I’ve driven past it many times, but since it does not have an established visitor’s center or anything of the sort, I chose not to stop in. That has bothered me a lot, since I really do try to get to each...
