On the move

Well we have come to the end of our stay here at Cape Blanco State Park. What a great park this is and the people responsible for making it great are Supervising ranger Paul Wayne and his Ranger Assist. Debbie. These people have made our stay here one of the most fun and enjoyable experiences we have had since we started volunteering 5 years ago.

We will be back.and soon!

We also want to say thanks to Dave and Will the other rangers we worked with.(they were too busy keeping the park beautiful to get their picture)

We also want to thank Gary and Elsie,our co camphosts for showing us the ropes and guiding us along the way.These two special people are camphosts with know how and can do attitudes.We hope to see them again down the road.

Jeni has been down with what she thinks is a sinus infection. The last week has been tough for her.I took her to the Dr. yesterday and got some antibiotics.Hopefully she is better soon.

Yesterday we hooked up and headed north on the 101 toward Coos Bay. It is only 28 miles but with Jeni still not feeling "up to snuff" we will stop for the night.

We stayed at the"mill" casino in their RV park right on the coos River on the bay.

With Jeni feeling much better,the next morning we headed over to the casino for breakfast and some "action"! What a beautiful casino and RV park.Flowers and lush greenery everywhere.Jeni especially liked these hanging baskets along the walkway from the casino to the RV park.

We headed out north on the 101 to Florence headed east to Eugene and took the I-5 north toward Portland.

We left the "Mill "casino a little poorer but we enjoyed our stay.I'm happy to report that Jeni is feeling much better now and she is back to her ole self again,keeping me in line.And that is one tough job!!

About 5pm and 27 miles south of Portland,we decided to pull in to a State park just off I-5.We had heard that if you are a volunteer and traveling from one job to another,you can stay free in the State park for one night,so we thought we would try. We pulled into "Champoeg " state park where we were greeted warmly by the ranger,given a beautiful spacious site,and,oh yea,Comped!free! What a deal! The state parks in Oregon are so beautiful.

tomorrow we will trek on in to our new assignment at Dechutes State Park.

But tonight we will enjoy our free site here at Champoeg.