We left Lebanon on friday June 20th and drove to Ainsworth State Park in the Columbia River Gorge. It is a nice campground, but you have both interstate noise and trains that come by about every 30 min and for some reason they like to blow their horns right there even tho there are no crossings on any of the track in the gorge.
I also recommend that you not use the dump station here if you pass thru as it slopes the wrong way and the tanks do not completely empty.
We spent 3 days here and visited the different water falls in the area, which there are many more that we did not see. Of Course the main one is Mutlnomoth falls which is 620 long. It is probably one of the most photographed falls in the world as many people were there both times we went to see it.

Silver Falls State Park

We went up to Silver Falls State Park with Marlys and Alan on Monday June 16th. It was a great spring day, weather was just perfect and the sun was shining. We needed some nice weather after a cool week at the coast. We hiked to South Falls first, then went down the trail to some of the other falls. It was a great hike. Here are some photos of the day.

Touring the Coast with Marlys and Alan

We have been touring the Oregon Coast with Marlys and Alan from Ft Collins and having a great time!! The weather was great the first day and after the 4th day, we wont talk about the days inbetween, except to say that cold, wet, windy is putting it mildly!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We managed to make the most of it tho and visited the Flavel house museum, Astoria column, Maritime museum, heritage museum and several other sites in the Astoria area.

We also were highly entertained at dinner one nite on the pier when a local fisherman caught and released a very large fish, which turned out to be a Sturgeon!!

We watched him try to bring in the fish for over 30 minutes, he measured it at 6 Ft 6 inches and estimated it to be over 100pds. We took his photo then he released the fish back to the river.

This is an ongoing trip so I will be adding to the post as the trip progresses!!

Campout at Schwartz Campground - Dorena Lake

We went with a group of RV'ers to Dorena Lake Area to check out the campground.

It is a Great campground, large and open near the Row River with plenty of room between sites. Had a great time playing games, riding bikes and eating!!

The weather was still cool, sure will be nice when summer finally arrives!! We were wondering what day it was going to occur on this year so we can have a picnic!! So much for global warming in this area.

It did stay dry for most of our trip that weekend so that was nice. The photos show us playing some golf, washer board game and just being relaxed. That is what it is all about. We had a great time!!

Memorial Weekend Trip to Medford

This is Grandpa enjoying the weekend!!

Riley picking and grinnin'

We decided to take a weekend trip to Medford before we leave on our big trip back to Nebraska/Colorado and parts to still be determined by the price of Diesel!!

We picked up our grandson, Riley, from Eugene on Friday afternoon and headed down to Medford. The weather was great but was supposed to change over the weekend to cool and rainy. We were in luck, the weather held out for the better all weekend and we had a great time. This photo is of Riley enjoying a breakfast burrito. I think he liked it!!!

We went down to Ashland on Saturday to visit Travis and take a small tour of the city. It reminded me a lot of Estes Park Colorado, kinda a tourist town with a laid back atmosphere, with a little of Boulder CO mixed in with the rest.

In Colorado we call Boulder the Republic of Boulder due to their Individualist style of thinking and "Hippie" style of thinking!! Ashland was a great town to visit and we met some really nice people there, Ramona and Christina were great to meet after hearing about them for a long time from our son, Travis.

I noticed that Riley knows how to work the cute angle with Ramona and it worked, he kinda does that to us also. Of course we know that he is cute because he takes after his Grandpa!!!

We had a great weekend but then had to head back to Lebanon so Barb could finish out her workweek at preschool and have "graduation" for the kids.