Finding Our Way
South Beach State Park is located right in the heart of Newport, Oregon. An area rich with lots of tourist attractions, restaurants, and natural settings. We were kept pretty busy during our stay. Oregon Coast Aquarium Our first stop was the Oregon Coast Aquarium, just a stone’s throw from the
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South Beach State Park is located right in the heart of Newport, Oregon right along the coast. The campground has almost 300 sites for both RVs and tenters. This equates to 9 loops, A-I. We were there just before peak season started and loops E-I were closed but we still
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We drove from Brookings to Cape Blanco and stopped a number of times at the Samuel H. Boardman State Park and the Pistol River State Park. There are nice pull outs along the way to stop and soak in the vistas. We eventually made our way to Cape Blanco, the
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We made it to Oregon! After a lovely drive on Hwy 101 from Paso Robles, California to the Oregon border (over a period of time) we decided to stop in Brookings for awhile. Brookings is the southern most town on the Oregon coast and known for growing nearly 90% of
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It’s that time of year when many RVers are working away busily preparing (if not already on their way) for their long awaited trip to Alaska, the wild frontier! When talking to other RVers, the subject of “Driving to Alaska” comes up now and again as we sit around the
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Humboldt Redwoods State Park is located in northern California and covers approximately 53,000 acres full of giant redwoods. This is one of those areas where photography just cannot capture the feel and the enormity of these giants. There are campgrounds, hiking trails, and small towns located throughout the park. In
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We headed north on Hwy 101 from Willits on up to Myers Flat in the Humboldt Redwoods State Park area. For the most part, Hwy 101 is not real bad as far as tight curves and narrow roads, those qualities that people who drive big rigs don’t like too much.
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The coast of Mendocino County is full of wilderness, trees, rugged coast line, curvy Hwy 1, and multiple charming towns. The towns of Mendocino and Fort Bragg are known for being popular for TV and movie filming. “Murder She Wrote” was filmed in Mendocino for years as was one of
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Next stop is Mendocino County. We know that there are many stretches along Hwy 1 that are not ideal for driving a big rig with a tow vehicle, especially Fort Bragg to Leggett, but we really wanted to tour the Mendocino Coast. So we thought we would find a place
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“The Birds” Filming Locations Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds” (1963), forever cemented in many of our brains to haunt us through eternity, was filmed in multiple locations in California but two of the main locations in the Bodega Bay area were in both the town of Bodega and the town of
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