Our visits home to Ashland are always bittersweet. It’s wonderful to be in familiar surroundings and to spend time with dear friends. But it’s also difficult to pack up and leave, yet again. This time, our visit was much too short, and mostly consumed with appointments and repairs—for ourselves; and for our truck, trailer, and […]
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We looked forward to this festival for months. Nine months, to be exact. In early January, we bought tickets for the Sisters Folk Music Festival and reserved and paid for a prime RV site at the Creekside Campground, located in the heart of Sisters. We were committed. Some Things Are Worth Committing To Spontaneity is […]
Most people, when they think of Washington, envision lush green forests, laden with ferns and dripping with moss. That’s a pretty accurate image—if you’re talking about anything west of the Cascades. But cross the mountains, and you’ll find a dramatically different landscape of gently rolling hills and vast expanses of farmland, dotted here and there […]
As long time Oregonians, we’ve been to Portland many times. I’m always delighted when we find ourselves in Portland when the roses are in bloom—from May till September, the city is lush with blooming roses. There’s no better place to revel in their beauty than in the Portland Rose Garden. At any time of year, […]
We wouldn’t deliberately choose to travel north in Oregon in the winter. But in our search for our new rig, we found ourselves journeying twice to Portland in the depths of December. We rarely go directly from point A to point B (no fun in that, LOL). So on our initial scouting trip, we moseyed […]
This is a quick post to wish all of you a joyful New Year, with the blessings of good health, the abundance of all that is important to you, and the opportunity to follow your dreams. Our lives have been filled to overflowing the past few weeks. Another word for that would be crazy, with […]
We’ve always wanted to see the holiday light display at Shore Acres State Park near Coos Bay, on the Oregon coast. But prior to our full-time travels, by the time December arrived in southern Oregon our trailer was either merrily rolling along on a winter vacation to warmer climes or hibernating in storage until the […]
Someone at the Chamber of Commerce apparently had a fit of poetic inspiration when they embellished Bandon’s name. But I have to admit; Bandon-By-The-Sea does suit this little Oregon coastal town. Cozy (population 3,000), quaint, and with perhaps the most beautiful stretch of beach on the Southern Oregon coast, Bandon is the quintessential Pacific Northwest […]
It has been a long and glorious autumn in our hometown of Ashland, Oregon. I love the fall colors, the crispness in the air, the coziness of a wood fire, a simmering pot of soup on the stove. More difficult to appreciate is the gray chill and fog that cocoons Ashland, generally descending the first […]
If you enjoy kayaking and you’re anywhere near the Klamath Basin in southern Oregon, you must kayak the Wood River. Our kayak has traveled with us from the rugged bays of the San Juan Islands to the mellow waters of the Florida Keys, with many lakes, rivers, springs, and swamps along the way. But the […]
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