We had dinner one night while at Klamath and went to a local place called the “Forest Café”. I didn’t read the reviews on this restaurant before we went, and I wish I had. Most were not very good, and mine added to the not very good category. Blah!
Here’s my review of this restaurant on Yelp: http://www.yelp.com/biz/forest-cafe-klamath
While here in Klamath we decided to go out to breakfast. We went to a local place called the “Log Cabin Diner”. It was GREAT! Here’s a link to my review on Yelp: http://www.yelp.com/biz/log-cabin-diner-klamath#hrid:p-QY0eAII9tueI54-5GTHw.
Still the body,
Clear the mind
and be at peace with all the universe.
We drove through some beautiful coastal forests yesterday and I put on my headsets to listen to some “new age” music that I love. Even though I was looking around at the forest and keeping half an eye on the road I felt I was drifting into a meditative state and this one just popped into my mind.
The weather report said that today would be partly cloudy, which we took to mean party sunny, so we took a chance and drove up the coast to the Tillamook Cheese Factory, 50 miles to the north of us. We drove up Hwy 101 to get there early and avoid the crowds we heard about, and drove back along the coast to see the sights.
The cheese factory was interesting, although there wasn’t a guided tour and the self-guided tour was quite short. The highlight was the samples of different cheese that were free and the ice cream which wasn’t free but was really good!
Our drive down the coast didn’t work out too well due to the fog. Also, the road through one area that we wanted to see was closed and we had to take a detour that wasn’t right on the coast. It was way too foggy to see much of anything! Here are a few pictures:
Travelling is fun,
but thoughts often turn to family –
We miss you!
Yesterday it was a little less foggy than it’s been all week, so we took a drive south along the coast to see what we could see. The coast along here in Oregon is rocky cliffs, but in several places there are beaches at the foot of the cliffs.
We saw rocks literally covered in cormorants, but no whales or seals or otters. Otters used to be plentiful around here but no one sees them anymore.
We saw one area at low time where a lot of people were clamming, which was interesting to watch.
We stopped at the Yaquina Head lighthouse. It’s not a working lighthouse, although I was surprised at that because of the heavy fog in this area. You can’t go into the lighthouse except on a tour, but we were able to walk around it and look down at the water from the cliffs. Thank goodness there were good fences along the edge, because it was a sheer drop-off! As we walked back to our car from the lighthouse, the fog which had been a short distance out into the ocean moved in, by the time we pulled out of the parking lot you couldn’t even see the lighthouse anymore!
With the fog getting so heavy, we headed back home. Hopefully in a day or two the fog will clear more and we’ll be able to see more of the coastline. Here are some pictures:
I’m taking a walk every day and a couple of days I walked along Hiway 101 (too foggy to walk into the next-door state park which is very densely forested). There are LOTS of raspberries bushes just growing wild along the road and quite a few have ripe berries on them. Here’s a picture:
Foggy.
Can’t see treetops.
Want to see the ocean –
maybe tomorrow.
We’re here in Depoe Bay, OR this week, which is right on the coast. It’s a beautiful coast area, part beaches and part rocky cliffs. We haven’t taken any pictures yet because we’re finding that it’s very foggy … all day the fog never lifts and we can barely see the treetops because of the heavy fog! We’ve gotten our winter coats back out as it doesn’t get very warm either.
We’re hoping the skies clear in the next few days so we can drive the coast before we have to leave! We did walk to one of the beaches the other day and while we were in coats, long pants and I had my gloves on, kids and people were in shorts and bathing suits! It was in the 50s! I guess to the locals it’s beach weather just because it’s August! LOL
The manager of the park said that it gets more foggy here when it’s warm in Eugene and Portland and they’ve been having a heat wave. It’s supposed to rain tonight and tomorrow (Saturday) and he thinks that will cause it to clear up a bit.
Well, I am glad we’re here with cooler weather rather than in Ariz or Miss where it’s in the 90s and 100s!! 🙂
The RV Park where we’re staying is one I consider “rustic”. It’s older and there are a lot of permanent trailers and a couple of small manufactured homes. Of the 53 spaces, more than half are permanent people. Many of them are older and the manager said they need a lot of assistance and checking up on. We’re finding that happening in a lot of the older, “rustic” RV parks – people are moving in permanently! Maybe we’ll end up doing that somewhere!
Here’s the link to the RV Park: http://www.fogartycreekrv.com/.
The RV park we found in Chehalis was at a golf course. It was small with about 25 spaces, and was literally right next to the course. The area where we were had a high net right behind the trailers in case of golf balls, and players often came right behind the trailer when they would hit into the rough on the hole there.
Jeff really enjoyed staying there as he could walk the dog along the course and lots of people would come up to pet Laddy and talk. I enjoyed it as the road was very quiet – golf course on one side, small airport on the other and the road dead-ended about a 1/2 mile down. So, I could walk along the road and rarely have cars pass!
The weekend that we were there they held a golf tournament, so the golf course was pretty busy, but it was fun to watch the activity. We were planning to stay just one week but Jeff broke a tooth and we stayed a couple of extra days so he could get in to see a local dentist. It didn’t hurt, he said, but we didn’t want to chance it breaking more or getting infected in the root.
Here’s the link to the RV park (golf resort): http://www.playriversidegolfrv.com/