Oregon Coast - Southern Oregon

Monday we had a low key day and then headed to Cannon Beach at low tide, which was also sunset! We saw plenty of anemones...

And one sea star!

Haystack Rock

Tuesday we stopped by Tillamook for a self-guided tour and samples and lunch!

Then we headed to Yaquina Head to go to Cobble Beach

The whole beach is covered in these cobblestones. It's pretty dang cool.

We also went by Cape Perpetua to see Thor's Well, but it was low tide, so not as impressive as seen at high tide.

At high tide it looks like the ocean is continually draining into this hole, low tide, you get the occasional spray of water coming up

We got to see another beautiful sunset as we drove Highway 101 down the coast

Thursday we headed to Crater Lake. They have less snow there right now than usually at this time of year. See that pole on the left? That's a marker so the snow plows know where to NOT plow... and it is just a tad taller than the motorhome. They get a lot of snow up there!!!

Because it wasn't sunny, we didn't get to see the vibrant blue of the lake water

We stopped by the Medford Oregon Temple that night, before we headed to our campground.

Friday we headed over toward Oregon Caves--but they are closed to tours November-April so the bats can have their habitat back. We did the Junior Ranger booklets and put this in our list to come back to, someday!

Saturday we made our way barely over the border into California

Today we attended the Tulelake Branch, Klamath Falls Oregon Stake

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Cross Country Trek!

Monday we went to Manassas National Battlefield. It was drippy and wet, so we didn't see much of the actual battlefield but the visitor center movie was fantastic and the exhibits were pretty amazing too. We learned something interesting--click on this photo if you want to read more. The stone is from the Manassas area farm of Wilmer McLean, the same Wilmer McLean whose home was used for the surrender of Lee to Grant at the end of the Civil War. McLean moved his family from Manassas to escape the battle, one of the very first of the Civil War. He could literally say the war started at his front door and ended in his front parlor! We then headed out, driving 8 hours a day. So our trip looked a little like this: Tuesday Wednesday Thursday We almost made it back to Utah before hitting any storms. There were some gloomy days, swirling snow, snow on the side of the roads (but not ON the road) until we got to west

Connecticut

Sunday we stayed put in Massachusetts where we were boondocking away from the brunt of the storm. We still had a lot of rain. Monday it rained and rained, we were able to find a campground that was open in Connecticut, we drove south in more rain.

Aloha, part 2

Day 9 -- Pearl Harbor and the USS Arizona We rode the bus to Pearl Harbor. The bus in Hawai'i is TheBus, literally. We also noticed that the bus numbers matched the license plates Sights along the way, note the Hawaiian islands on the shaka hand gesture More murals The visitor center is open air, two museum galleries, a theatre, and lots of memorials The Navy runs the ferry from the visitor center out to the USS Arizona There are buoys at either end of the ship, so you can get a sense of its relation to the memorial structure Look closely, you can see a small, white buoy close to the USS Missouri and also parts of the USS Arizona sticking out of the water The entrance to the memorial You can still see oil on the water from the ship In the center of the memorial, there was an open area where you could look down directly onto the ship Looking toward the far end of the memorial The far end of the memorial had all the names listed of those that died in the attack on Pearl Harbor I di

Wandering Orbit

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