September 15, 2008
We left early in the morning on our last part of the journey to Charleston Mariana, southwest of Coos Bay.
Now here is a good one I bet hardly anyone ever sees. While coming into the city limits along the bay I noticed a small sea plan on the Bay. It got my attention since the plane was slowly moving. I figure it was getting ready to take off since the bay was so clam with no wind and was pretty smooth. Looking at the plane a little closer and pointing it out to Helen we noticed there were fishing poles sticking out of the windows. Yes, I said fishing poles, and no I was not drinking anything! There was a boat just the South of the seaplane that was trolling, and since they have been reporting the salmon fishing was hot in that area and that is what the sea plane was doing, trolling.
I have seen much in my life, but heck why not people fishing from a sea plane.
Like I have mentioned in many of my early Blogs last year, there’s so many neat things to see out there if you just want to look.
Used out computer GPS to find an RV repair site to have them look at our backup monitor since it went out and was still under warrantee. GPS worked great this time, however the traffic was not bad. Arrived at Charleston around 2:30.
Glad we had our reservation in advance the Marina RV Park was full.
Met one of our new neighbors next door that is probably in his late forties. He helped us unhook our motor home and get my boat ready for fishing
I guess he is a professional diver that works on the boats while they’re in the water. One of the better dives he does is in the winter months when the commercial crabbers are working the sea. Eventually they get a lot of rope from crab traps wrapped up on the screw (that’s layman talk for propeller shaft). He has to dive and free the tangled rope from the prop. I guess he doesn’t make much money doing this about $40 to $60 dollars a shot. However, when you have lots of commercial crabbers working it does not take long to get several clients. In 99 % of the cases the commercial crabbing boats are able to limp it back to the bay to work on it. Interesting enough, he was telling me he used to work for this outfit that dove for clams and shipped them to the various aquariums in Oregon. They used the clams for feeding the Sea Otters.
Monday, September 22, 2008
ON OUR WAY
September 14, 2008
We left home around noon with the plan to get to Roseburg Oregon by night fall. It must have been a dream, as we never got there until the next day. Of course this is one of the plans you make in advance and timing is not there. Originally we were going to leave at 10 am, but you know how that goes there is always that last minute check to see what you forgot to do.
Needless to say we got to Ashland Oregon and believe it or not, got lost in this small little town looking for a gas station. My Jim Dandy computer told me the cheapest place to get gas in Oregon was there.
Now with the Computer GPS unit telling me which turn to make to get to this service station it did not warm me about the 5 o’clock evening rush hour, and since this was the only gas station that had gas on sell, guess where all the traffic was heading for. To make it worse it is not a very big station and trying to pull our pickup with the RV it takes a pretty good turning radius to get around. Figure on 32 foot motor home with and 16 foot tow vehicle. Of course your in trouble if its too tight to turn and there is no way to back up the motor home when you have the two vehicles attached, Anyway had to by pass the station and travel on in hope we did not run into any dead end streets. About 25 minutes later after several circles around the town we found our way out. You know that feeling like you have been there before and you were. Another lesson learned. To save a buck it probably cost me 5 bucks more in gas.
Finally back on the freeway and headed North in hopes of finding another gas station easier to get in and out of, and hopefully an RV park a little further up the road.
We found a real nice RV campground in Medford called the Pear Tree. Nice clean RV site, not cheap, but well worth the price. They have a real nice pool and of course a great hot tub, which we didn’t use.
We left home around noon with the plan to get to Roseburg Oregon by night fall. It must have been a dream, as we never got there until the next day. Of course this is one of the plans you make in advance and timing is not there. Originally we were going to leave at 10 am, but you know how that goes there is always that last minute check to see what you forgot to do.
Needless to say we got to Ashland Oregon and believe it or not, got lost in this small little town looking for a gas station. My Jim Dandy computer told me the cheapest place to get gas in Oregon was there.
Now with the Computer GPS unit telling me which turn to make to get to this service station it did not warm me about the 5 o’clock evening rush hour, and since this was the only gas station that had gas on sell, guess where all the traffic was heading for. To make it worse it is not a very big station and trying to pull our pickup with the RV it takes a pretty good turning radius to get around. Figure on 32 foot motor home with and 16 foot tow vehicle. Of course your in trouble if its too tight to turn and there is no way to back up the motor home when you have the two vehicles attached, Anyway had to by pass the station and travel on in hope we did not run into any dead end streets. About 25 minutes later after several circles around the town we found our way out. You know that feeling like you have been there before and you were. Another lesson learned. To save a buck it probably cost me 5 bucks more in gas.
Finally back on the freeway and headed North in hopes of finding another gas station easier to get in and out of, and hopefully an RV park a little further up the road.
We found a real nice RV campground in Medford called the Pear Tree. Nice clean RV site, not cheap, but well worth the price. They have a real nice pool and of course a great hot tub, which we didn’t use.
Friday, April 4, 2008
FINAL PLANS FOR RETURN
March 31, 2008
Here is a picture of a hardwood floor that was made entirely out of Myrtle wood from several trees that were cut on her cousins property and then milled specifically for there home.
This will be our last Blog for this trip but WE WILL BE BACK.
Planned busy day today in getting everything ready to leave early Tuesday morning. Went to Coos Bay to return the oxygen machine and pick up a few other things for the RV. I figured this was the time to get them before we return to California. Went to Les Schwab and they checked our air in the tires for the motor home. Met a real nick person believe it or not the first person I think we have met that w a born local in Coquille. As always friendly and help full. He told us next time we come back to Coquille to look him up and he would help us find a good fishing spot and even help us look for another house. Going to miss this country and all the friendly people we have met.
Got propane for the RV at a gas station at $3.25 per gallon. Pretty good we stayed up here for almost two months and probably used only around 18 gallons of Propane. The tank on the Rv only holds 11 gallons but with the spare 7 gallon tank we never really had to move the RV just filled up the spare 7 gallon tank. Worked great. (see earlier Blog Dated February 25th TRIP TO CHARLSTON MARINA AND COOS BAY
OK WHO SAYS IT NEVER SNOWS IN COOS BAY OR.
March 30, 2008
Took up a large load of stuff I felt we could leave at Helen's cousins’ house for storage until we come back up again in August. Since we live in the desert I find not much need for our crab traps at home. Still a little cool today with a pretty strong north flow. We did get about a ½ inch of snow again this morning, which is kind of hard to believe, since the elevation here is only 36 feet above sea level.
Took up a large load of stuff I felt we could leave at Helen's cousins’ house for storage until we come back up again in August. Since we live in the desert I find not much need for our crab traps at home. Still a little cool today with a pretty strong north flow. We did get about a ½ inch of snow again this morning, which is kind of hard to believe, since the elevation here is only 36 feet above sea level.
LOADING UP FOR RETURN TRIP HOME
March 28 & 29, 2008
Pretty much winding everything up for our return trip home. We pre loaded a most of things we had stored under the RV and Helen is putting up a lot of the knickknacks and things setting out in the motor home. We’re really not taking a lot of extra stuff home this time since we plan on being back up to Charleston later this summer... Since Helen's cousin has a fairly large storage barn we will leave most of our ocean fishing stuff here, such as crab traps surf poles etc. When we come back this summer we will bring back the boat and truck. Even though the truck does not get that good of gas mileage it’s more logical to have the truck to haul fishing equipment around.
Gasoline prices are still up there, around to $3.42 per gallon in Coquille, still cheaper than the gas in Susanville. I figured it would take us about 45 gallons of gas to get our motor home back to Susanville. Checking on gasoline prices it looks like our best bet would be to get our gasoline before we get back into California. Some of the current prices as of the 29th are as follows: Winston OR at a Texaco station at $3.38 per gallon, Klamath Falls OR $3.60 per gallon, Medford OR $3.48, Ashland OR $3.45 and Yreka CA at $3.77 per gallon. Will figure on Ashland OR as a stop to fill up, which should take care of the gas until we get home.
We have one stop planned on our way home to a Home Depot in Roseburg. They have the Wagner paint sprayer on sale there with a $50.00 rebate as well as there is no sales tax, which will save us and additional $15.00. Since this is just a few miles out of our way I figured this would be the time to buy it.
Pretty much winding everything up for our return trip home. We pre loaded a most of things we had stored under the RV and Helen is putting up a lot of the knickknacks and things setting out in the motor home. We’re really not taking a lot of extra stuff home this time since we plan on being back up to Charleston later this summer... Since Helen's cousin has a fairly large storage barn we will leave most of our ocean fishing stuff here, such as crab traps surf poles etc. When we come back this summer we will bring back the boat and truck. Even though the truck does not get that good of gas mileage it’s more logical to have the truck to haul fishing equipment around.
Gasoline prices are still up there, around to $3.42 per gallon in Coquille, still cheaper than the gas in Susanville. I figured it would take us about 45 gallons of gas to get our motor home back to Susanville. Checking on gasoline prices it looks like our best bet would be to get our gasoline before we get back into California. Some of the current prices as of the 29th are as follows: Winston OR at a Texaco station at $3.38 per gallon, Klamath Falls OR $3.60 per gallon, Medford OR $3.48, Ashland OR $3.45 and Yreka CA at $3.77 per gallon. Will figure on Ashland OR as a stop to fill up, which should take care of the gas until we get home.
We have one stop planned on our way home to a Home Depot in Roseburg. They have the Wagner paint sprayer on sale there with a $50.00 rebate as well as there is no sales tax, which will save us and additional $15.00. Since this is just a few miles out of our way I figured this would be the time to buy it.
KOOS TUG BOAT AND HISTORY
March 27, 2008.
Made a trip to Coos Bay again to pick up some food and other needed items. Pretty much cloudy with showers. Not a pleasant day for crabbing like I was hoping for.
We stopped by the Board Walk at Coos Bay and looked at the old boat Koos No. 2. This was an old tug boat launched in 1948. It had a steam engine, which was pretty large. Great display.
There are also a dozen or so wood post from the different native species that are on display they grow in Oregon. You name it if it grows in Oregon they have a poster on exhibit of all the species.
HO HUM Day
March 25, & 26 2008
Not much to report for Monday or Tuesday. Just a couple of days to sit around and do nothing. Like I have really been doing a lot of productive work lately. Planned on fishing in the Coquille, but it was pretty cool out both days. Strong North wind, which did not do much for my enthusiasm. It did get into the low 50s, I think around 55 °. If it was not for the wind it would have been nice, since it was a little overcast.
ho hum day
Not much to report for Monday or Tuesday. Just a couple of days to sit around and do nothing. Like I have really been doing a lot of productive work lately. Planned on fishing in the Coquille, but it was pretty cool out both days. Strong North wind, which did not do much for my enthusiasm. It did get into the low 50s, I think around 55 °. If it was not for the wind it would have been nice, since it was a little overcast.
ho hum day
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