Coos Bay to Brookings

We are at the The Mill Casino RV park where we stopped last year. Our site is in the front row facing part of Coos Bay.  Where we are parked is just down from the Coast Guard Station. Looking  through the front windows We can watch tugs moving barges and freighter up and down the bay.  A large Coast Guard buoy tender slowly went by on its way out to sea.

We enjoyed full hookups with 5oamps. The park is level, however the sites for some reason are high in the center and lower at each end and it took two blocks in front to level the coach .  I guess it works for 5th wheels and trailers but not so much for motorhomes.

From here we’re traveling down to Brookings.

We arrived at the Brookings Elks a little afternoon. It rained on us most of the way to Brookings and was lightly raining when we arrived.

Setup at the Elks

 

One of the two pull-through sites at the Brookings Elks

The sites here are level with water and 30amp electric. Besides the two pull-through sites, there are several back in sites. Located a mile or so from town, its very quite here unless the Elks are gathering. Satellite has a clear view. Didn’t try the off-the-air reception, but I would think it would be good here also

Florence Oregon

We’re at one of our favorite Elks campground just outside of Florence. This RV park is located in a rustic wooded area. They also have a “RV park” in town on the parking lot next to the lodge. We’re in space 8. The sites have EW, 50amps, cable TV and Wifi. The cable TV at our site was poor. No cell signal.

While Ty and I were walking around the campground we came upon a few deer also walking around.

The first stop the “Honey Bear Yarn Shop”

Ty waiting for his mom to return.

We went out for dinner and decided to try out the Maple St Grille. The outside looked like a really large restaurant but it only occupies a small part of the lower front. About six or so tables. Debbie tried tried the crab cakes and I had a sandwich. We enjoyed talking with the owner but the food wasn’t very good. 

Tillamook Oregon

We arrived here at the RV park in Tillamook on Sunday in time to catch the afternoon football game. The sites here are slanted down at the rear so the back end of the RV has to be raised to level the unit. The worst cast scenario. It does  have full hookups and 50amps.

After setting up we drove back into town to Jayne’s, one of Debbie’s favorite quilt shops. A stop at Fred Myers and back to the Horizon.

The next afternoon we drove a few mile back up the coast to the Pirates Cove restaurant.

A look around the corner to the side entrance.  A view of the bay.

Our corner table is waiting.

The restaurant has a fantastic location on the bay.  The view from our table.

To bad the food wasn’t as good as the view.

A Man and His Cat

Back in Port Susan, I’m enjoying the new recliner and a football game. Ty is just enjoying his recliner. I guess the game wasn’t close enough to hold his interest.  You can see the unit across the road through the windshield. For some reason they painted it about three or four bright shades of blue.  This in a rain forest. Instead of blending in like most places, it stands out like a sore thumb.

Not sure what game this was, neither is Ty

Warrenton, OR

Today we drove through Anacortes to Warrenton to look for a “dive” or restaurant that Darryl and Flavia  took us to last year.  As I remembered it served really good sandwiches and burgers. We ended up driving right to it, Buoy9.

We both had a cup of clam chowder which was great and I had a cheese burger while Debbie tried their BLT.

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Astoria, OR 2012

Today we are again going out for lunch but instead of the Rogue Brew House that we usually have to eat at,

we’re going to look for a lunch stand or cart that is suppose to be located across from the Maritime State Museum. I read a review somewhere about it and then our camping neighbor mentioned it while we were visiting and said we had to try it. We missed it the first time by, it is located across from the Maritime Museum but a block over on the other side of an open lot.

The lunch stand or cart turned out to be a historic Columbia River fishing boat. At one time these boats were used to fish for Salmon and Sturgeon. We shared a five piece order for ten dollars. They were very good but the fish was frozen so it could have been better but the batter was very good.
Later we stopped at a Goodwill Super Store where Debbie found a piece of Corning Ware. Its older and hard to find, as its not being made any longer. Its special because it can be used on the stove top or the oven. Apparently the new Corning Ware can’t be used on the stove top.

Ty thought he needed a walk when we returned. We took him down to the beach which is loaded with driftwood at the top edge. He walked along the edge of the driftwood for a long while and he was happy to see his Horizon when we returned.

Long Beach, WA 2012

We drove over to Long Beach from the campground this afternoon mainly to eat lunch at our favorite  restaurant Roos, an Australian themed restaurant. 

We hit this place every year and always order fish tacos because they are good. We haven’t tried anything else because its an expensive place so we just always order what we know is good.  We stopped at an overlook on the way back to the campground.

Cape Disappointment State Park

We arrived at Fort Canby also known as Cape Disappointment State Park shortly after lunch around 1:30.  Because last year when we arrived there were people in our site who had not yet pulled out so we just changed to another close open site. Because there is no cell service down here we had to drive back to the ranger station to inform them of the change and make sure our new site was available. We then got set up and found we didn’t  have a satellite signal. So we moved again and made another trip the ranger’s station. The round trip takes about 20 minutes.  To avoid that past embarrassment, I ask  the ranger at check-in if she could mark other available sites on our park map in case we need to change from the one we were assigned. She look up on the computer and determined there weren’t any other available sites. In past years the park has been less than half full, but this year we’re a few weeks earlier, but I don’t know if it’s because its earlier in the year or more people are camping.  Luckily the site I picked, 31, worked fine.  Ty is in the window, opposite the jack-o-lantern.

Site 31 is level with a good view of the satellite. No cell service or internet, but that’s true for the whole site.

Shelton Elks Campground

We’re ready to leave the Shelton Elks. Its Tuesday morning and the sun is shining after pouring down all night. We enjoyed our stay here. Its very quite and secluded. Our timing was fortunate, last weekend was Shelton’s Oysterfest and the park was full.

This is a view looking across the park to the rear of our pull through site 6. The sites are spaced far apart and the park is located in a wooded setting.

Rainy Night in Shelton, WA

It rained all night last night but this morning has stopped and  we’re going to venture out to explore Shelton. First is finding breakfast. I found Suzan’s Grill on Yelp and we decided to try it out. It turned out to be an excellent choice.  Debbie had the biggest omelet  I’ve ever seen. I had biscuits and gravy, three eggs, four bacon strips and hash browns. We both thought our meals were delicious. The service was excellent, my coffee cup was never went below half full. Believe it or not we both brought half of it home. I never have any breakfast leftover.

After a stop at Walmart for a couple of necessities and some fiberfill for a project, hers not mine, we  had to make a few more required stops.  Today is Monday. Guess what all the important store in town are closed on Monday. 
    
On the way back to the Elks we did find Nettie’s Attic open, a kinda thrift shop, but we didn’t find anything we needed.
The main street into Shelton displaying it autumn colors.

Lumber is the history of Shelton and at entrance to the city is a crosscut of an old, large tree.

The rain started up again when we returned to the Horizon. I just got the Jeep re-connected before it  really got started. It rained heavily off and on the rest of the day. . We'll  be off tomorrow morning heading to Cape Disappointment State Park . I only have to pickup the jack pads and unplug the water and electricity so if its raining I don’t have too much to do outside.

Fall in Shelton, WA

Well we left Port Susan around nine-thirty  this morning and pulled into the Shelton Elk’s RV park around noon. The park only has two other RVs that appear to be unoccupied.  We stopped in one of the pull-through and I connected the water and the 30 amp power.  The sites have a lot of space between and are extra long. Not exactly level but not too bad. We had good cell and internet service. From site 6 we had clear sat signal. The park has a lot of trees so some sites may not have  a clear satellite view. 

Just after I finished setting up it started raining. Ty always wants out when we arrive at our destination so I thought I would take him out in the rain and then he could just come back in and be satisfied. Glad I put on my rain coat because he didn’t seem to notice the rain. We walked around for about a half and hour. He came back in soaked and spent the next hour drying off. Boy is he soft and fluffy now!