Here we are, on the road: We’re in Canyonville, Oregon

Sunday October 10, 2010 Lorraine’s Report

10-10-10--Wow! What an impressive date, this doesn’t happen very often.

Hello again from one of our favorite spots, Seven Feathers RV Park in Canyonville, OR.

Last Sunday found Chuck coming down with my cold/flu, he’s a lot better now, thanks to the medicine he took all week.

We spent a quiet morning doing the blog and watching football. In the afternoon we took a drive to the south, checking out that area. I fixed a nice dinner and then Chuck suggested we head over to Chinook Winds for a little gaming. I played a bit and just before we left, I hit a small progressive jackpot. I haven’t done that before. On the bonus round, I got five golden tigers and it gave me $225.00 on a quarter bet; this was the progressive prize for that machine.

The next day found me puttering around the rig, Chuck was needing his rest, since he was taking the cold/flu medicine. After a nap he felt better and we had errands to run and headed to downtown Newport. We enjoyed another nice day on the Oregon Coast. The weather has been cooler, sometimes foggy in the morning, then the sun warming it up in the afternoon.

The following day was moving day. We packed up and headed out to Coos Bay, OR. Our destination was the Mill Casino RV Park. We were fortunate to get a spot, the casino was having their annual Cranberry RV Show, with lots of RV’s on display. They were having a variety of events happening everyday, but we stayed close to home.

Wednesday morning we spent at home, Chuck planning our time for after the Holidays, and with me paying doctor bills from the previous weeks’ mail. The sun was out by the time we were done and we headed out to check out the area. We drove out to the sand dunes, and continued along the shore road. That road took us to Simpson’s Reef.

This area is so beautiful and rustic; the wind blows all the time and down below the viewing area is the reef. On the reef you can see and hear all the seals, sea lions, all the sea birds and the other sea life. It is fascinating to watch all the activity happening below you. We enjoyed the area a great deal.

The next day was laundry/restocking day. So off I went to Fred Meyer while Chuck stayed home to bathe Misty dog. We had an early dinner then headed over to the casino for a little gaming. This was not a good call, since we both lost what we allowed ourselves, so we headed home. One good thing, home never closes.

Friday we moved once again. We packed the rig and headed East on 42 to I-5 and south to Canyonville and Seven Feathers. This is a really nice RV Park and we like it a lot. It is on the west side of the freeway and casino, the sites are paved with cement and there’s grass and trees between spots. They have a beautiful swimming pool/hot tub building.

We arrived here, set up and then headed back to Roseburg, OR to a new Costco to check out the price of a new laptop for Chuck. Off and on his doesn’t work right and he can’t get on the internet or get into his mail. They had a couple of computers that we wanted to check out more information on.

I went swimming for an hour on Saturday morning; I had the pool all to myself and had a great work out.

We then headed an hour south to Medford to the Rogue Valley Mall. This is a really nice mall, and I found a lot of great bargains, like I found a nice jeans jacket for myself for $11.00. It fit well and the price was right.

From there we headed over to a new Best Buy. We checked out more computers for Chuck, but didn’t buy anything yet. The drive home was really nice, with the sun out and casting its golden glow on everything.

Chuck took Misty out and we headed over to the casino for dinner. The buffet was prime rib and all the fixings for $15.00 for seniors, not a bad price and the food was very good.

I’m looking forward to seeing my granddaughter and daughter in 11 days. It’s been since mid April since I’ve seen them and since Christmas for Chuck, way to long for my liking.

Until next time….Lorraine

10/10/10 Chuck’s Report

Another good week for us. We started out in the Newport area, drove to the Coos Bay area and then left the coast and headed inland. We’ve both been putting up a good fight on the colds we’ve caught, haven’t let it stop us but it has slowed us down a bit however.

Sunday was a quiet day for us, watched football then went to a couple of the local beaches. Later we went to the Casino for a couple hours, Lorraine won a mini jackpot and I won a couple dollars too, yea.

Monday we toured the old town of Newport, lots of shops and restaurants down there along the docks. Later we just spent a nice, quiet evening at home, neither of us were up to the casino.

Tuesday we left our favorite part of the Oregon Beaches and headed South. Oregon has 4 distinct type of beaches, sandy, high sand dunes, rocky and cliffs. We happen to like the sandy area the best with the high sand dunes coming in second. The area we were driving through today were the sandy dunes so we didn’t see the ocean as much, we were on the wrong side of the dunes.

We decided to drive a bit farther than originally planned, no problem, just wanted to get to Coos Bay. We checked out a couple of campgrounds and decided to stay at another Casino campground, The Mill Casino and RV park. When we checked in they suggested we might want to keep our spot for a few days rather than day-by-day as they were having the Cranberry Festival and RV show that week.

So with all that was going on, we decided to stay for four day and take part in some of the festivities going on in the area. The first night we went to the Casino to check it out (and play the slots too). Lorraine once again came out with some of their money and that’s good because she won more than I lost, ha.

Wednesday we decided to check out the area a bit. We headed for the beach, over the sand dunes. Access to the beach isn’t as easy as up North so we had to drive a bit to finally get to the water. After checking out a couple of beaches we took a trip down the road, following the beach as well as we could through town and the residential area of town. We found a campground we stayed at three years ago, forgot it was in the area.

A few miles down the road we once again found ourselves in a somewhat familiar area. We drove around the bay and checked it out once again, funny how much we’ve forgotten in the past three years. We drove a few more miles and found ourselves at Simpson Reef, a place we really enjoyed three years ago. Once again we were glad we had found this area, there is an overlook where we could see the reef and hear the seals, sea lions and watch the wave action. We stayed there about an hour, just enjoying nature! This was the type of day we really enjoy, being together, not doing much except exploring the area.

Thursday we did a few things around the coach before Lorraine headed into town for some shopping. I got to clean up a bit and gave Misty a bath. Once Lorraine got home, we had hot dogs and chili for dinner before we headed for the Casino once again. This time we both came out ahead a bit, much better than two days ago.

Thursday morning we checked the weather forecast and decided to head inland rather than stick around the coast in the rain that was forecasted. So we checked out a day early, got everything ready and headed out, East this time.

We made it all the way down to one of our favorite campgrounds we’ve stayed at in the past three years, 7 Feather’s Casino and RV Park. The RV park is across the freeway and is set up very nice. Lorraine likes the indoor swimming pool here and usually goes over everyday for awhile. Once we got set up we drove the car to Costco at Roseburg. We needed a few items and I wanted to check out the computers they have, mine has been giving me a few problems. We got lots of information about the computers but decided to hold off until we checked Best Buy the next day. So we returned home for another quiet night, didn’t go to the Casino because we both were tired and still fighting our colds.

Saturday we drove South to Medford, Lorraine likes the shopping Mall there. We also checked out computers at Best Buy, got more information but didn’t buy any. If we decided to purchase a new laptop, we would like to buy it while we are in Oregon because there in no sales tax here.

After we got home, I took Misty out for a walk and then we called the shuttle for ride to Casino for a buffet dinner. We had a very good dinner and decided to try the slots for an hour or so. That turned out to be good for me as I won a $50 bonus early on and played on their money the whole time. I ended up winning almost as much as Lorraine lost, a reversal of normal roles for us.

We plan on hanging around here for a couple of days, just resting and enjoying the campground and Casino. Although it has been over three weeks since we left Bellingham, we really haven’t traveled that far, as a crow flies that is. We really like and enjoyed our time along the Oregon Beach but Lorraine is really getting antsy to get down to our daughter/grand daughter’s place in California. Kaitlyn gets on the phone every few days and asks when we will be there, cute. But it is making Lorraine miss them even more than usual.

So after we leave here we’ll probably spend a couple days on the road, no idea where just yet. We both would like to spend some time in the Sacramento River Delta area again. We liked it last time we were there and hope to explore it a bit more this time.

After that, it will be time to head to Susy’s place. Susy and Mark want to play in the Stanford Marching Band for their homecoming weekend football game so we will watch Kaitlyn that day, yea. At this time we are planning on getting there on the 20th.

So with that look back on our week and a bit of our future plans, I guess I’ll add some pictures and get this posted.

More pictures of our time on at the Oregon Beaches.