We moved down the road to Camp Yale at Belknap Springs to meet up with Jaime’s brother Jim and his wife Tami. The weather turned into a soggy Oregon mist but we still enjoyed our stay soaking in the hot spring fed pools. After Jim and Tami departed on Sunday, I put on my Gortex […]
Clear Lake and The McKenzie River
We had been wanting to get back up to the McKenzie River and camp for a while to enjoy all the area has to offer. Coming back to Oregon in June from spending most of our spring out in the deserts of California and Arizona this drive was an explosion of green. We found a […]
Waldo Lake
I had been looking forward to getting back to Waldo Lake. My family has been coming here for years and it’s a very special place. The lake is in the Cascades Mountains between Eugene and Bend. It’s kind of Oregon’s answer to Lake Tahoe but more remote and less visited. Motorized boats are banned so it’s […]
McKenzie River Trail
The McKenzie River Trail in Oregon is one of my favorite places. It offers spectacular scenery, hiking, an awesome trail for moutain biking, waterfalls, hot springs, and fishing. The colors of the water and surrounding forest are surreal. Sahalie and Koosah falls are easily accessible from the road. Tamolitch Blue Pool is a little more […]
Opal Creek
We had kind of planned on going to Glacier National Park in September. Glacier is one of our favorite National Parks if not favorite. But Oregon seems to be tugging at our heart so we are looking at staying and exploring more of this beautiful state before the infamous rains arrive and we start heading […]
Pacific City, Oregon
I think I can count the number of warm sunny days I’ve spent on the Oregon Coast on one hand. We stayed five days at Pacific City Thousand Trails and managed to hit the beach weather loto with highs in the 80’s. The park has trails to the beach across the road and you can even […]
Lovely La Conner
We moved on from North Cascades National Park to the Thousand Trails La Conner Resort. The park is right on the Puget Sound and turned out to be a favorite of ours this summer. The weather was a perfect 80 degrees every day. Every night there was a great sunset and even Crosby seemed to […]
North Cascades National Park
From Winthrop, we climbed back up the steep North Cascades. The weather had changed from sunny to North West drizzle. The scenery in the park is pretty spectacular and very different from most of the Cascade range. We stayed two nights in the very nice Newhalem Creek Campground next to the visitor’s center. You can definitely […]
Boondocking Bliss in Upper Bobcat
After staying in RV parks for a while, it was time to unplug and head out for some open space. We consulted Campendium.com and found the perfect free camping area close to our route, outside of Winthrop, Washington. The Upper Bobcat is a fish and game access area but seems to be relatively empty when […]
Getting our Yodel on in Leavenworth
From Cougar we headed North and stayed an uneventful night in the poorly named “Paradise RV Park”. The next day brought rain and a slog through Seattle traffic. We finally climbed into Cascades and rolled into the Leavenworth RV Campground. The campground is 18 miles from the faux Bavarian town of Leavenworth which turned out […]