Wednesday, June 11, 2008

We left at 1:20 pm (GA Time). A nice short trip up the road to Bandon Oregon. We arrived at 2:30 (GA Time). A long time to go just 24 miles. We hit some construction along the way. We are staying at Bullard State Park in site #B63. So far it is nice and quiet here. I imagine the park will be full by the weekend.


We got set up and went into Bandon for dinner. We ate at Bandon's Fish Market. They sell dinners and fresh fish. We got fried salmon, fried prawns, crab cakes, fries, garlic toast, slaw and... ew.. a Pepsi (really not that bad and I can't believe I said that about a Pepsi). We had never had salmon fried before and it was really good.... everything was really good with the exception of the slaw. I didn't eat any of the slaw, but Frank said it was just chopped up cabbage with no seasonings at all. He put some of the tartar sauce in it and said that made it edible :-D


Out of town we drive... on a scenic route... nothing very scenic about it. We went to Seven Devils State Park... a day use area... and walked on the beach. There are suppose to be agates there. There are not near as many stones as there were at Stone Lagoon on the beach. Frank said he didn't find any agates that he knows of.... I was too busy trying to keep my hands warm to pick up many stones. Nothing I picked up was pretty enough for me to keep :-) It was 58 degrees according to the truck thermometer, but it felt more like 40 degrees... the wind was blowing pretty good.


A few groceries were needed and talking to people... it was not a good idea to drag the trailer into the Wal-Mart parking lot. The nearest Wal-Mart is just past Coos Bay in North Bend... these two cities and Charleston run together. Frank was told by a park attendant here as to how to get to Wal-Mart, but she told his so many directions to things he couldn't remember what she said, so we stopped in at North Bend's visitor's center. The elderly lady there showed us on the map how to get there and gave us the map and loaded us up on more brochures of Oregon :-)


We found Wal-Mart. It would have been very difficult finding it with the trailer following us. It is a very small parking lot compared to most Wal-Mart's. .... I think that was a 21 mile trip one way to Wal-Mart. We figure we will have learned every floor plan the company has by time we get back to Georgia :-D We bought frozen biscuits... so next time we are stopped long enough some will get baked :-)


We we back into Bandon for gas at $4.85 a gallon.


The lighthouse is not far from the campground. We drove by there to see what time they open in the morning. They open at 9, so we'll go a bit earlier than that to take a few pictures of the lighthouse and then take a tour. It is no taller than the last one, so we should make it up and down it okay.


We came back and put away the groceries and went up to the bathhouse for our showers. The dreaded push button ones. They also have no shower curtain so the floor gets all wet and there is no dry place to put clothes on.


Frank looked at the Streets and Trips program some and I ate an apple and made coffee for in the morning. Then Frank is through with the computer... he ate a snack of something. When you eat like we did today nothing much is needed in the evening. So far Frank isn't sick with acid reflux. I'm doing the journal and he is reading Mark Twain.


We traveled 24 miles today plus extra miles driving scenic routes and to North Bend.