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Most readers are of a generation that fondly recalls the John Denver ballad, “Country Roads.” The lyrics go: “Almost heaven, West Virginia; Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River.”
We'll never forget our first conversation about possibly moving from Los Angeles to Red Bluff if a position with DWR opens up. “It's hotter than hell and I don't want to live there,” she said, or words to that effect. As the Rumpole character often muttered, “She who must be obeyed.”
Ironically, the crystal clear, azure skies over Stanley Lake (“Dark Sky Reserve” with zero “light pollution”), had smoke from Oregon fires in addition to California fires. Decamping to our Bend, OR, home, we see amber tint at the local 4,000-foot elevation; the webcams at Mt. Bachelor reveal smoke up to 8,000 feet. The Sawtooth Mountains and lakes were a breathtaking way to start summer travels.
I'll elaborate below. There will be no mention of political leaders, parties, ideologies, or organizations—just some personal philosophy that may or may not be very Christian.
Our second week at Honeyman State Park, in Oregon's coastal dunes recreation area, went like this: Our view continues to be like what we would have if our motorhome was a tree house, looking down on campers. In reality, our site is on an upper ring and the foliage shields us from neighbors so the only other campers we see are 15-feet below us.
With each move to another 2-week’s camping site, we end up with some opposite surroundings. We exchanged the thick, tall forests and dunes of a state park, for an open field with defined camping sp…
If you enjoy camaraderie while befriending fellow campers, and when pleasantries and casual inquiries are welcome, you can gather some interesting stories from unlikely sources.
Our ship came in. That would be the S.S. Crab. Some Oregon families and friends took three camp spaces next to us. We knew they were serious “crabbers” as they unloaded their gear and cooking setups from the all-purpose hauler—their boat filled to the gunwales. Grandparents, parents, young adults and kids, all made for a well-executed foray into the labor intensive recreation of “crabbing.”
There is a part of Oregon’s far north coast, from Tillamook to Astoria, including the southwestern most corner of Washington state, that is, like parts of Idaho, too far for most campers’ and trave…
While this writer has been frolicking about the countryside in Idaho and Oregon, it turns out that there has been no pause in the foolishness inflicted on our fair state. More on that below.
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