The Loneliest Road In America - HWY 50

We arrived in Fernley on Oct. 21st and stayed at the Desert Rose RV Park. It was a great place and when we woke up in the morning, we showered and did our laundry. We needed to be on the road by 9:30 AM as we are headed to Ely, NV which is about 275 miles away. Once you leave Fernley, NV you are on what they call "The Loneliest Road in America". It is Highway 50. We fueled up and headed east on a journey across the high plains and mountain passes. We will cross over several passes that are in excess of 7,200 feet.

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From Lonely Highway

Redding, CA

When we arrived in Redding, CA the weather was beautiful and the temperature was 78 degrees. We stayed at the Redding Elks Club which is right next door to the Turtle Bay Exploration Park. We woke up to a clear and brisk morning and went for a 3 miles walk through the park. The park is located along the Sacramento River and is just beautiful. We crossed over the river on the Sun Dial Bridge. We passed many walkers, runners, bikers, and baby carriages. It was a great walk among the beautiful oak trees. Fall is definately on the way! After our walk we did some grocery shopping and we purchased a trailer tongue jack with wheel and a spare time for TowMe2 and headed east for Fernley, NV.

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From Redding

Headed To Redding, CA

We pulled out of camp (Beachside) on Monday (Oct. 20th) and are headed to Redding, CA with our friends Dick and Alice Hanson. This is their rig in front of us. We left just in time as the heavy rains are falling on the Oregon coast. Our plans are to go to Utah and visit Bryce National Park and then head south to Arizona. We will be traveling with Dick and Alice for this part of our trip. They spend a couple of months a year in the Phoenix area. We may spend a week with them at "Happy Trails RV Park", which is around Surprise, AZ and was built by Dale Evans & Roy Rogers. Do you remember them?

Our First Wild Mushroom Hunt

The 9th annual Yachats mushroom festival was great fun. We went to the mushroom dinner on Friday (Oct. 17th) and attended several classes on the importance of mushroom ecosystems, mushroom identification, mushroom exploring, and recipe cooking. We ate mushroom burgers, soups, and enjoyed our first wild chanterelle pasta dinner with chicken. We had a great time collecting our first wild mushrooms and will continue to hunt for them over time. We started our hike into the forest on Sunday morning. It was clear and cold. We hiked to about 400 feet where the fog had settled in and there was moisture. It was here that we picked our chanterelle mushrooms and there were many to be found. It was a fantastic and educational experience for us.

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From Mushrooms

Cape Perpetua

We had a great day of hiking and exploring the Yachats area. We hiked up to the top of Cape Perpetua where you could see for miles. It was approximately 2.5 miles round trip with an elevation gain of about 800 feet. After we hiked down, we explored the coastline and all of the tidepools. It was another spectacular day at the ocean!

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From Perpetua

The Perfect Campsite!

We arrived at Beach Side State Park and picked this beautiful campsite. It would be my first attempt at backing up the trailer. Yes, I needed help! We had power, water, fire pit, clean restrooms, hot showers, and the beautiful Pacific Ocean in our front yard. Can you imagine all of this for just $17 a night? Upon our arrival, we bonded quickly with the Verhaag brothers (twins) and their wives from WA and the Kositsin's from British Columbia, Canada. We will be staying here for 6 nights. We are hoping that the weather will hold for us. The mushroom festival starts on Friday (Oct. 17th).

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Perfect Site

Heceta Beach Light House

This is the lighthouse at the northern end of Heceta Beach. To learn more about the history of the Heceta Beach Lighthouse CLICK HERE.

Leaving Heceta Beach

We left Florence, OR (Heceta Beach) on Tuesday (Oct. 14th) and headed north. Yachats, OR is only about 26 miles away. It is not very far, but the coastline is rugged and majestic. We passed the Sea Lion Caves, which I can remember visiting when I was 10 years old. It was alot different then. You had to walk down a very long stair case which was fixed to the side of the cliffs. Now they have two high speed elevators that take you down to the caves.

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Old Town Florence, OR

Florence, OR is one of the oldest commerical fishing ports on the Oregon coast. We talked with some of the fisherman that had just come in from Tuna fishing. They had to go out to sea 180 miles and decided to come home as there was a storm moving in to the coastline. They did not think they would go out again this season, so were preparing for the commerical Dungeness Crab season which starts in November.

Heceta Beach RV Park

We loved our camping site at Heceta Beach RV Resort. It was very private and we stayed 3 nights and had a real good time combing the beach. We had hot showers every morning and all was very pleasant. The picture above is of our campsite.

Geocaching At Heceta Beach

We woke up this morning to an overcast sky, but soon the sky's cleared and the day was beautiful again. We decided to see if there were any geocaches in the area and found that there were several. We headed out for a hike to the north jetty and found three along the way. It was fun and we had lunch on the jetty and watched the seals hunt for fish. We headed back home and decided that we would stay a couple more days before heading up to Yachats for the mushroom festival. We will be staying at Beach Side State Park for four nights during the festival.

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From Heceta Geo

A Beautiful Drifter

Once we got to the ocean and walked the beach for awhile, I could not pass up this picture of the beautiful scenery on Heceta Beach. It can't get any better!

Heading To The Ocean

We left Eugene around 11:00 AM and of course we had to stop by the nearest Camping World to buy a few more things for our trip. We headed west on Highway 126 to Florence, OR where we arrived at around 2:30 in the afternoon. We found a great RV park at Heceta Beach. We are tucked in behind the huge sand dunes between our site and the ocean. We have a very private spot and the weather is clear, warm, and beautiful. We could not wait to head out to the ocean and see the beautiful scenery.

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Our First Night!

Our travels over Santiam Pass went well and we arrived in Eugene around 3:00 PM and spent our first night at Premier RV Resorts just north of Eugene. The RV resort was full of Oregon Beaver & Duck fans because both schools had Pac-10 home games on Saturday. The Beavers were playing the WSU Cougars and the Ducks were playing the UCLA Bruins. Oregon football fans are special and they love their football teams. We had a great time, but it was too congested for us and we were looking forward to heading west to Florence, OR and the ocean.

Headin Out!

We decided to leave today (October 10th) because the first snows have started to fall in the passes. Last night in Sunriver the temperature was around 20 degrees. The night before the first snows hit the mountains. They had 6" of the white stuff on Santiam Pass (4,817'). We will be heading over this pass to Eugene, OR for our first night. We will be leaving Sunriver around noon, as the temperature on the pass will hopefully warm up a bit. This will be our first day of traveling with Trek and TowMe2. Yes, we are excited!

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From Leaving Sunriver

Sunriver Arrival

We arrived in Sunriver on September 25th. We will be volunteering for the 12th annual Pac-Am golf tournament and will be here for about a week, or more, before heading out on our Trek journey. The trailer needed to be retrofitted for a kayak rack so we left it in Gresham to be picked up later. We decided to name our trailer TOWME2.

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From Trek (Sunriver)