October 9th....Quartzsite, AZ

We got to Quartzsite a couple of days ago, back in the sunny and dry climate. 

What a fantastic summer we have had!!  Kind of sad to have our trip end, but it will be nice to stay in one spot for a while.  Although we are going home for 2 or 3 weeks.  We fly out of AZ on the 17th and will spend a week in WI with our son, and other family that live there.  From there we will go home for a couple of weeks to be with family there.  We are driving my brothers RV back to AZ for them and they will fly down after the holidays.  So still traveling I guess 

We left Crescent City on sat morning and drove south and east and ended up staying in a Casino Lot that night.  On Sunday we drove as to Bakersfield and spend the night in a Walmart lot.  It was a interesting drive through the agriculture valley in CA.  There was grove after grove of almond and pistachio trees,  and vineyards and winerys.  I was surprised to learn that also grow a lot of rice in the valley.  But there was so much traffic, didn't like that.

Because of the government shut down, the BLM land that we park on in the winter is closed, tho we did pull in and park anyway.  Lots of people park out here on the desert, so it's going to be a problem for a lot of people if they don't get things settled soon.  

I guess this is my blog, I have enjoyed doing it, which actually surprised me.  I didn't think that I would keep it up, but found that I did have fun doing it and sharing my pictures.

This is where we are parked, have been parking on this same spot for 6 years

 It is windy today so lots of dust in the air, but it is in the 70's, so perfect.  Yesterday it was over 90, a

bit to hot for me

October 2nd

We're still staying in Crescent City.  Today we drove south to see the redwoods, there was a lot of road work in the park and in some places the road was closed, but we saw a lot.  They are so massive and awesome and it's almost impossible to get the pictures to show how really big and tall that they are.  I did find if I pointed the camera straight up you can see better how tall they are....here are some pics

I thought this made a interesting picture

 

The top so this tree is way up there 

Same tree, still not to the fop

October 1st

Today we drove thru part of the Redwood National Park.  Tomorrow we plan on going to the Avenue of Giants, where the redwoods on even bigger.  

Lots of pics...

They do get over a 100 inches of rain a year here.

This is a really big one

How would like to find this big guy in your garden...it's a banana slug

The tree is wider than our truck

We sat here and watched the surf while we ate our lunch

This one is hollow

The ferns are taller then I am

Moss covere tree

Ferns growing on a dead log

This is one of the bigger trees that we saw today.  It is 304 ft tall,   21.6 ft diameter,  68 ft circumference and the estimated age is 1500 years

September 30th.....Crescent City, CA

We had such a pleasant surprise this morning.  The storm had ended and the sun was shinning!!! It was a wonderful day!

Battery Point Lighthouse is an active lighthouse with a residence and keeper

We were hearing these Sea Lions this morning in the RV but couldn't see them.  Found them later just across the harbor.  They do make a lot of noise!

Got a pic of our RV while watching the Sea Lions across the harbor

I caught this surfer just as he was getting up

This surfing beach is close too, just across the harbor.  Lots pretty scary to me

September 29....Crescent City, CA

It's been a few days since I have written.   See if I can remember what we have been doing....

We left the coast on the 26th and drove inland, planning on going up to see Crater Lake.  Found out that wasn't such a good plan as the weather was not good up there, they were getting rain and possible snow.  So we changed our plans and drove south and west to Crescent City and got to a RV park right on the ocean.  We are very close to the Redwood National Park, actually drove thru it on way here.  We went to spend some time there after it stops raining, which is suppose to be on Tuesday and nice the rest so the week.  

They have been having quite a storm all the way down the coast with lots of wind and rain.  It started here last night, and just a few minutes ago got very windy.  It is shaking the RV and the waves coming in off the ocean are getting kind of wild.  I love watching them...

We plan on staying here for a week and then head for Arizona.  We have close to a 1,000 miles to go and want to get there around the 10th of October, so we still have some time...but our big trip is getting close to the end.

I should hve some pictures of the redwood trees in a few days...

September 25th

Yeah...the sun shone all day!!!!  And it was beautiful, I had a whole new attitude today.

We drove down the 101 again and stopped at some new places.  We walked a couple of beaches, one was all round rock and very hard to walk on, but there were tide pools I wanted to check out.  The tide was coming in, so couldn't stay long.  I did get lots of excersise as the one trail to the beach was almost a mile and there must have been a hundred steps going down,  and then you have to go back up.  That was the killer...I was ready to sit when I got back to the truck.  We did see a couple of different lighthouses along the way

These look like pelicans, but not for sure

This little guy was in a tide pool

There were 3 of these Harbour Seals swimming around 

Yaquina Head lighthouse...stands 162 feet above sea level. The 93 foot high tower is the tallest on the OR coast.  It was first illuminated in 1873

Heceta Head lighthouse sits 205 ft above the ocean.  It was first illuminated in 1894, today it's automated becon is rated as the strongest light on the OR coast and can be seen 21 miles from land

This is a jelly fish, we saw lots of them on the beach yesterday.  I think they are interesting.