The boys (Felix & Francis) arrived on Tuesday around 3pm at Annie's house to pick me up. However they had been melting in Francis' car for around 5 hours without air con in 40 degree heat!! Therefore with Annie's permission they stayed the night as it was near impossible to get back in the car again after experiencing Annie's gorgeous cool cottage.
We got up at 6:30am and headed onto the I-5 north to Winston and then west to Coos Bay and the coast. We finally settled on a camp site at Siltcoos. It was really nice, they are deluxe camping spots compared to the UK where you get a field. Here you get a mini driveway a picnic table and a fire pit. Although we were primitive campers according to American standards as we only had tents. People here pitch up with their huge RVs (motor homes), 5 quad bikes, car, truck, huge gas BBQ/kitchen!
We went for a walk to Siltcoos Lake, dune running at Jessie M Honeyman's (I know a very similar name to my own!!) and wanderings on Siltcoos beach. Plus we also found a great little bakery 'Sugar Shack' I think it was called, and had to partake of the coffee and doughnuts on several occasions. Yum!!
We wanted to see the huge redwoods on the drive back, but miscalculated the popularity of the camp site so we decided to just do the return journey in one day!! That amounted to about a 13 hour drive and included a huge mountain rage for 3.5 hours and an elevation 3000 ft!! There were tons of gold prospecting rigs in the river we drove by, we guessed someone might have found a nugget or two and everyone else was there for the 'pickings'.
We drove back along the coastal road and then inland towards central valley and Davis, it was a fun drive and we chatted lots and drank lots of coffee too. We got back about 11pm so wasn't too bad.
The next day I was back chilling by the pool. Bliss.
Wednesday, August 05, 2009 |
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