Back in Oregon

Captains Log August 7 – Heading back to Oregon!  Well, for 3 nights then we dip back into California for 3 nights and then back to Oregon again! 

On the drive through Crescent City where we stopped at Walmart for our groceries as the next

Battery Point Lighthouse

stop is a really small town, we could see the Battery Point Lighthouse.   There was no where to park the RV except along the highway and you can’t walk to the lighthouse since it’s on a tiny island, so I managed to get a photo from the RV and we continued on to Wally World!

The drive was just a nervy as it was going south!  Curvy, up and down and plenty of traffic!  I pulled over 3 times to allow the crowd behind me get ahead.  Most of the drive is along the river, some at road level and some way down in the ravine. 

Our reservation is at the Laughing Alpaca, which was recommended to us by one of the camp hosts we met.  Well, it’s not the best place we’ve ever stayed nor is it the worst, but it’s mostly a trailer park with 6-8 overnight spots.  The couple that own it are young people and are very nice.

After lunch we thought we’d take a trial run to the visitor center of the Oregon Caves National Monument so we’d know how long it took since Bill called a couple of weeks ago about tickets and was told to be there by 7 or we wouldn’t get a ticket.  Well, we won’t get a ticket because

One of the Laughing Alpacas

they have a sign out that says they are closed for the rest of the summer due to Covid.  Crap!

We drove thru Cave Junction to see what there is and it’s got a nice main street with 2 grocery stores, a Dollar General, 2 thrift stores and a variety of other shops and restaurants.  There are quite a few empty buildings.  We stopped at Taylor’s Sausage Country Store.  What a place!  It’s been the family business for 4 generations and they make all kinds of sausage, jerky, steaks, burger, totally amazing.  They sell to places in California where the business started.  I got us some “trail jerky” which is thicker and wetter than regular jerky.  It’s really good!

We stopped at Grocery Outlet and I got a bag of mixed carrots, quite a change, and a bottle of wine.  Can’t let that run out!

Once we got home I baked a batch of Almond Cream Cheese Pounds cakes and we had leftovers for dinner.  Later once the cakes cooled we had some with blackberry sauce.  Surprise!!

I got on the computer as normal and Bill read, as normal.