After I left Dan’s place, I drove up the I-5 freeway into Oregon. Last year and the year before, I was leaving from Lake Tahoe about this time of year and took different routes for the adventure. I’ve been up and down the I-5 corridor hundreds of times and it has lost much of it’s appeal for me. After a day’s drive, I reached the border between California and Oregon near 5pm and start looking for a RV park. As I passed through the Cascade Siskiyou National Monument, I stopped at a rest stop for lunch. While I was eating my ham sandwich at a picnic table, I left my sandwich covered and wandered over to the cliff edge to take some pictures. When I turned around, there was a blue bird there standing on the table, hovering over my sandwich and tugging on the wrapper, opening it. Little thief. I yelled at him and he flew off, but not without getting a bite first.
I’m now out of the desert, as you can see, and into the ‘Evergreen’ area of the northwest. The desert has it’s charm, and makes up most of the west, but being able to come back to the evergreen forests makes the place livable.
Here’s a lake, water storage behind a dam:
Later that afternoon, I settled in at a nice little campground:
They had a small man made pond where ducks hang out:
There’s some over there:
The swampy bit:
More ducks:
