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Compiled all of our footage over the last 6 days travelling through Oregon.  Enjoy!

Enjoyed a nice sunset and some good sleep at the cape lookout state park.  Ranger recommended a nearby to the point of the cape.  It was a nice 5 mile hike with a great view of the coast.  Saw 2 dolphins, a sea lion and a whale!  Hopefully got some good footage on the gopro camera.

Packed up around 1pm and headed north on the 101.  Fueled up in tillamook, then stopped for laundry duty.  Ate a late lunch at the blue wave cafe.  A great halibut sandwich and razor clam entree for us.  Satiated, we drove further north to a town recommended to us, Cannon Beach.  A quaint surf town with some touristy shops.

Great to be walking barefoot in the sand again!  But the water is a frigid 61!

Lucked out again, showing up on a Friday night at a state park and a couple folks had cancelled.  So we grabbed a spot!  Plan on exploring the park, which has some lewis and clark historical sights.  Been listening to the audio book of their travelogue.  Quite an amazing journey they accomplished back in the early 1800s.

Cannon Beach

Unsure that VCRs are still a selling point for a hotel

Peter Iredale shipwreck on the beach at Fort Stevens State Park

About 9,000 miles later and we have made it to the coast!  Wasn’t in our original road trip plan, but a great milestone and glad we made the detour further west!  Spending the night at Cape Lookout state park, hopefully enjoying a Pacific sunset tonight.

Drove a loooong way to see the ocean

Headed southwest today from our campsite near the columbia river.  Stopping along the way to see some sights and enjoy the season’s bounty of agriculture.  Plan on spending the night closer to the coast.

Round of golf in the columbia river gorge

Picking blueberries in the williamette valley

Wine tasting at the original winery that started the oregon wine appelation

Packed up and headed further north towards the Columbia River.  Crossed over the river into Washington just before noon.  Stopped at a rest area along the river for lunch, before heading west along the river to find a campsite for the night.

Plan to head back into Oregon tomorrow.  Thinking about visiting some Willamette valley wineries and then the coast.

A couple days of some long drives, but well worth it to arrive at Mount Hood.  Quite amazed at the terrain of eastern and central oregon, almost like a desert you would see in arizona or utah.  Not what we expected to see..

Once we got closer to the cascades, then it started to look like the pictures of oregon.  Some great dispersed camping and tons of area to explore.  Trees are immensely larger here.

Sweet campsite near Barlow Creek

Someone left us firewood and a makeshift table

Pulled into the area on Friday afternoon.  All pay campsites were taken due to the holiday weekend, but we luckily found a nice dispersed site right near the entrance to redfish lake.

Decided on a late afternoon hike to see more of the lake and nearby mountains.  Caught a few dink trout up at bench lake before the mosquitoes got to be overwhelming. Enjoyed a great sunset hike and bike back home.

Idaho does a really nice job of providing free dump stations with potable water at most cities and forest service campgrounds.  So we took advantage with a couple long showers in the Rpod on Friday night.

View from Galena Pass onto the Sawtooth Mountains

Another beautiful day in the mountains

Pre-shower hairdo...13 months without a haircut...

Been a looong time since I last visited Sun Valley, but nice to be back! 

Unsunny in sun valley this evening

Grilled up two trout which I caught yesterday morning