After returning from Gordon’s property, getting the genset fixed, and getting paid by one of my old clients, I’ve been staying around here in Gresham, Oregon, hanging with my friends at LT’s tavern. I was able to get several of them to come up for some pool and a beer or two. After all that fun, I just drive a mile or so to a new community development near where I use to live and park for the night on a new street next to an empty site.
But…it’s gotten so hot there, hovering around 95 to 105F, that it was not all that comfortable. Since my genset was fixed and all last week, I can run it all day so the AC can be on but hanging out here in the RV all day isn’t that much fun. So, since the weather reports indicated that it will be hot here for weeks, and that the coast was cool, it was time for a road trip.
I left Portland on a wim Friday evening around 8:30 because it was so hot, over 100F. I felt that a trip to the coast, (which was, is, and will be in the 70’s for the next several weeks), would be fun.
Now I’m down on the Oregon coast at a state park named ‘Barview Jetty State Park’. First I drove down to Seaside and just parked in the lot of a theater for the night. It was already cool when I arrived and early the next morning it rained. Very refreshing after days of heat. The next morning I get up and drive to an RV park near downtown and find they are full up. And will be for weeks. They called for me and found that all the area RV parks were full. The town was packed with people too.
So, I head south. I pass several RV parks but none of them looked all that appealing to me. When I get to Garibaldi, I find a line of people waiting for campsites. This place is large enough that it still feels less then crowded even when it’s booked solid so I followed the staffs recommendation and waited until checkout time at 1:30 PM. There were 5 no shows so I got in and set up.
It is sooo comfortable, with temps just perfect at 70F. My satellite connection works well, I get several TV stations and it’s quiet here except for the mournful cry of the fog horn over at the jetty. I’m settled in and paid up through Wednesday. Later today, I’ll go back down and add a few days. I might have trouble next Saturday since I’m told that the park is booked for the entire weekend. I might have to leave. We’ll see.
Before I left Seaside, I took a few shots at the small park I stopped at to eat breakfast. Here’s the estuary, downtown Seaside is to the Southwest in these shots, all the shots look westerly:
This guy caught my attention when he started wading across the water and hollering how cold it was, it’s around 9 AM:
After I got back on the road and headed south, I found this spot around 50 miles south of Seaside:
Same place looking South this time, that is the Pacific Ocean down there:
