We finally got out of Oro Valley for a 10 day trip to the Oregon Coast. We had been planning this trip since January and it seemed it would never come. We looked at so many videos on what to see that we hoped we would have as great time as what we saw on YouTube videos. We decided to drive it - a whopping 1400 plus miles one way, breaking the trip up into 2 if not 3 segments. We were so anxious to get to Brookings that we drove 830 miles the first day. Long, long day. Traveled around Phoenix, then scooted up on Route 95 until we got to Fallon, Nevada which is due east of Reno. Found a hotel for the night and crashed. One of the things that shocked us, when we traveled this route in the RV, was how far down Walker Lake evaporated - an alkaline lake that's dead. This lake is in Walker, NV, above Death Valley, and when we were there years ago - all we thought about was the horrible wind that shook the RV and we thought we were going to loose the sliders from the treacherous wind. As Dave was driving through and past the lake, the wind kept slamming up against us, we were glad to leave that area.
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| Dry Colorado River by Quartzite, AZ |
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| Walker Lake - pretty, but dead |
Saturday we drove west from Fallon into Reno and then northwest through Susanville, past Lassen National Park, then into Redding, California. But first we tanked up the car - we heard that gas was six dollars a gallon - found that last gas station right before crossing into California. Only paid 4.95 gal - but still.....
Traveled past Whiskeytown which is west of Redding, CA, a town that now sits under water after they dammed the Shasta River, the entire town got submerged from. They say on a clear day if you scuba dive down, you can see the remains of many buildings. Freaky.
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| Whiskeytown Lake |
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| Lunch spot in Shasta Trinity Natl Forest |
Into the Shasta Trinity National forest, pretty, windy road up and over the Sierra range, made it to McKinleyville, California which sits right at the ocean, we picked up Route 101 which is the coastal highway that runs the length of the Pacific from California to Washington.
Right after we made the turn right (going north) we stopped at Clam Beach to stretch our legs and see some of the beach and ocean. Beautiful, but we froze. We left Arizona in 91 degrees at 6am on Friday, and it was 62 and foggy when we walked down to the beach.
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| Those clouds are really fog - rolling in |
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| Ocean on our left as we head north to Brookings |
Got back to car and began the trek up north. Got into Crescent City, California by noon, we could not get into the AirBnB until Sunday, so I had to scurry to find a hotel. Eventually ended up a a casino and hotel run by the Towolah Indian Nation (beautiful place!) just at the border of California and Oregon. Saw a great sunset that night through our window and called it a night.
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Sunset from Casino Lodge
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