Author: Mike Pekrul

SO FREAKIN’ AWESOME! Maybe even as good as the helicopter ride! We are staying next to the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area, a vast interconnected series of beautiful tan sand dunes, stretching for miles along the Oregon coast. The area is just criss-crossed with crowds of 4 wheelers and side by sides. Hordes of them.…

I just want a pizza. A regular old medium pizza. The same kind of thing I get at home. $10-15 bucks. That’s all. Nothing special. Pizza out here is just crazy expensive. $38 for a medium pepperoni. $48 for a large. Even plain ol’ Pizza Hut, back in the last town, wanted almost $30 for…

We drove inland yesterday to a place called Golden and Silver Falls State Natural Area. Some of the signs said “state park”, but it wasn’t much more than a parking area and a couple trails to the falls. Driving out to it was an adventure of its own. The road was very narrow, and dropped…

Not a lot going on this week. We moved up the coast from Crescent City California to the central Oregon coast north of Coos Bay. It’s still beautiful country here, but very sparsely settled. Tiny towns dot the coast, some no more than a gas station and a few shops and some houses, but only…

As we talk to people about our journey and where we’ve been and what we’ve seen, the same question comes up over and over. What has been our favorite place, so far? Well, maybe we’ve found it. The Pacific coast, Northern California and Oregon, just grabs us both. It has the beach. It has giant…

We went walking on the beach yesterday because… rocks of course. A local man suggested a beach location where Susy could find some great rocks for her collection, so we traveled up that way. Kellogg Beach, just north of Crescent City. Very strange to me. I grew up in Florida, visiting the beach daily when…

This one has no theme, it’s just a mish mash of the things we’ve been doing since Monday. We’ve been exploring the coast and the parks all over this extreme northwest California and up the southern Oregon coast. Some days it was ocean and beaches, some days it was hiking in the hills among the…

After being shocked awake way before the crack of dawn by a phone call from back home, we decided to get up and go watch the sunrise at the beach and eat breakfast out. But, we learned afterwards, this area is completely fogged in every morning this time of year, so no sunrise. We did…

We left Oregon this morning and moved to a site in Crescent City, California. The campground we were staying at back in Oregon was Lake Selmac County Park, outside Selma. A very pretty campground on a nice lake. Huge private campsite surrounded by large trees, including a few redwoods. And NO cell service. So no…

I went to the Oregon Caves National Monument and Preserve today. I have to say… meh. I took the tour through the cave, and it was “nice”. “Interesting”. Just ok. It’s a mile long tunnel in the mountain, ducking and weaving, tiny small passages through the rock. “Some” formations as seen in other caves, but…