Blogs from Crater Lake, Oregon, United States, North America - page 4

Pattie And Ron's Vacation 2010 Day 2 Crater Lake/Redwood National Forrest. Day two dawned clear, a mild 53 degrees. Wispy white clouds floating by. We got up early and made ready for our Crater Lake Adventure. The hotel offers an expanded continental breakfast and we ate our fill, grabbed two coffees to go and headed to the car. We headed west on Route 97 for about 26 miles before turning towards the park entrance. We took a brief side tour of a small town just before the turn off. Nice bungalow type houses, neat and tidy. One can only wonder what they do to support themselves way out here. Route 97 is lined with large pine trees and from what we could see they went back a good way. There was no evidence of clear cutting, ... read more

Here are some photos of Oregon. The deep blue lake is at Crater Lake National park near Bend while the waterfalls are along the Columbia River highway, just East of Portland...... read more

As you can imagine, after the night I had last night, I was a little slow risin' and shinin' this morning. I am seriously getting too old for that mess and eventually I'm gonna realize it ! Tim was being so sweet to me this morning cause he knew my head was pounding and it was going to be a rough day for me. He made me some breakfast and I slowly began to gather my thoughts and once I had my shower I was good to go. I was excited about getting to tour the Harry & David factory here in Medford, OR so I got myself together and called to get our tickets. Oh no, I was so upset.........they were closed for the holiday until Thursday !! I can't believe it, I was looking ... read more

Tim and I were still so pumped this morning about seeing the bear yesterday at Yosemite. That's the first thing we said to each other this morning, "Can you believe we saw a bear???". We were parked right beside a Jack In The Box so we thought we would try it for breakfast this morning. I ran over while Tim was getting ready and tinkering around the motorhome. The biscuits were really good but the coffee actually made Tim sick for most of the day. Just another reason why I don't drink coffee ! We really didn't have anything planned for today except to drive, ride and explore some towns between here and Bend, OR. We did want to go to Mt. Shasta before leaving California so we made our way over there. It's a beautiful ... read more

Saturday July 3rd Daily Information High temp: 70 Low temp: 55 Campground Elevation: 5,880 above sea level Highest Elevation: 5,880 above sea level Lowest Elevation: 2,122 above sea level Traveled 365 miles Departed 9:10 MDT Weather wonderful, cool today, low humidity. Highlights Arrived Oregon 8:30PDT Cascade seen a 10:55PDT snow seen Onions, Wheat fields and a mushroom farm Lots of blue boxes (size of a small shed) in the field, don't know their use Crossed miles and miles and miles of nothing, the High Desert of Oregon Large Butte in the middle of nothing and looks like a volcano Stop for gas; gas attendant pumps it, the law in Oregon does not permit self service, they also do windows Arrived campsite at 4:45PDT, a wonderful setting on Diamond Lake near the entrance to Crater Lake NP ... read more