Up early and left the Safeway car park and drove back into the town, found a nice car park near the river to have breakfast, which we had to vacate before 11.00am as it was market day in the town and the car park was used for the market. Walked the town trying to find the post office, this wasn’t as easy as you may think, however it did give us a chance to look at the town perhaps more than we would have. We found it to be a very nice place with beautiful parklands. We then visited the old mill area, which in contrast to the older look of the town, is mainly new, full of trendy shops and eating areas built around a small section of the old mill. Driving to the mill
area was a bit tricky, we stopped and asked a lady for directions, she said” if you keep turning left you will get there”, we followed her directions continuing to turn left, until the road seemed to be very narrow, this is when we discovered we were driving along a walkway, have you ever tried to turn around on a walkway ??? That was one turn left she forgot to mention that we should not have taken. After walking around for a while we left the Bend area and drove back into the forests, had lunch in a National Forest with Mt Bachelor as a back drop. Beautiful drive once again until we found a fishing campsite by a lake. Snow covered mountains pines etc etc….. the only
downside was that it started raining, gave us the opportunity to watch a great movie “ Howards Way”. Up early, still raining occasionally but cleared long enough to see the snow, unfortunately I was beginning to catch a cold. Decided to stay and see what happened with the weather, experimenting with the iPod, until we ran out of power. Although the clouds were low we thought we would start the drive to the coast, it was just so cold here. Another superb drive, as we descended from the mountains through the Willamette Pass we drove past more large lakes and pines. It warmed up a little as we descended. Had a little trouble crossing Eugene to get to Wal-
Mart for the night, missed a few turns on the freeway but eventually made it. In the morning we had to make our obligatory visit to Wal-Mart (can’t help ourselves). McDonalds didn’t have wifi, but found another site at a gym (guess it is so you can work out while on the Iphone) ,which gave us the chance do what we had to. It was now off to the coast and Florence, on the way there we came across another covered bridge, where we had afternoon tea, then went for a walk along the river and came across the perfect place to spend the night , Cold not improving, Michele cooked a hot dinner. Florence perhaps tomorrow. Slept in this morning, as cold is worse, leaving for
Florence after morning tea which we had on the other side of the river, just so many great places to stop at. There is a casino just out of town that has a dedicated RV parking area, there would have been 20 to 30 RVs there, we went into town for a few items and wifi, then back to the casino for the night. Next day went back to town to do the laundry, discovered it was Flag Day in the US. Down in the old town there was a market with the usual things, plus live music, after wandering around old town we went back to the casino with the intensions of an early start the
next morning. Left the casino at 9.50, cold no better however Michele is just about over hers. Drove along the coast and had breakfast at the Sea Lion centre. There were a lot of seals in the water and basking on the rocks, plus the awful odor that comes with them! Perused the gift shop, and then drove on to the historic Cape Creek Bridge, with a view of Heceta Head’s lighthouse from the beach, you can see many more sea lions from the view points to the north of the Sea lion centre. Next we visited Cape Perpetua National Forest and the information centre. Captain Cook was in this area must have been just prior to him dropping into Australia in
1776. We drove past many beautiful beaches, most with pines on the cliffs overlooking the ocean with large rocks in the water, beautiful scenery. The Oregon coast is promoted as a cycling area and you see many cyclists rising to the challenge The next edition we will continue our drive along the coast to Newport.
Up early and left the Safeway car park and drove back into the town, found a nice car park near the river to have breakfast, which we had to vacate before 11.00am as it was market day in the town and the car park was used for the market. Walked the town trying to find the post office, this wasn’t as easy as you may think, however it did give us a chance to look at the town perhaps more than we would have. We found it to be a very nice place with beautiful parklands. We then visited the old mill area, which in contrast to the older look of the town, is mainly new, full of trendy shops and eating areas built around a small section of the old mill. Driving to the mill 
area was a bit tricky, we stopped and asked a lady for directions, she said” if you keep turning left you will get there”, we followed her directions continuing to turn left, until the road seemed to be very narrow, this is when we discovered we were driving along a walkway, have you ever tried to turn around on a walkway ??? That was one turn left she forgot to mention that we should not have taken. After walking around for a while we left the Bend area and drove back into the forests, had lunch in a National Forest with Mt Bachelor as a back drop. Beautiful drive once again until we found a fishing campsite by a lake. Snow covered mountains pines etc etc….. the only 
downside was that it started raining, gave us the opportunity to watch a great movie “ Howards Way”. Up early, still raining occasionally but cleared long enough to see the snow, unfortunately I was beginning to catch a cold. Decided to stay and see what happened with the weather, experimenting with the iPod, until we ran out of power. Although the clouds were low we thought we would start the drive to the coast, it was just so cold here. Another superb drive, as we descended from the mountains through the Willamette Pass we drove past more large lakes and pines. It warmed up a little as we descended. Had a little trouble crossing Eugene to get to Wal-
Mart for the night, missed a few turns on the freeway but eventually made it. In the morning we had to make our obligatory visit to Wal-Mart (can’t help ourselves). McDonalds didn’t have wifi, but found another site at a gym (guess it is so you can work out while on the Iphone) ,which gave us the chance do what we had to. It was now off to the coast and Florence, on the way there we came across another covered bridge, where we had afternoon tea, then went for a walk along the river and came across the perfect place to spend the night , Cold not improving, Michele cooked a hot dinner. Florence perhaps tomorrow. Slept in this morning, as cold is worse, leaving for 
Florence after morning tea which we had on the other side of the river, just so many great places to stop at. There is a casino just out of town that has a dedicated RV parking area, there would have been 20 to 30 RVs there, we went into town for a few items and wifi, then back to the casino for the night. Next day went back to town to do the laundry, discovered it was Flag Day in the US. Down in the old town there was a market with the usual things, plus live music, after wandering around old town we went back to the casino with the intensions of an early start the 
next morning. Left the casino at 9.50, cold no better however Michele is just about over hers. Drove along the coast and had breakfast at the Sea Lion centre. There were a lot of seals in the water and basking on the rocks, plus the awful odor that comes with them! Perused the gift shop, and then drove on to the historic Cape Creek Bridge, with a view of Heceta Head’s lighthouse from the beach, you can see many more sea lions from the view points to the north of the Sea lion centre. Next we visited Cape Perpetua National Forest and the information centre. Captain Cook was in this area must have been just prior to him dropping into Australia in 
1776. We drove past many beautiful beaches, most with pines on the cliffs overlooking the ocean with large rocks in the water, beautiful scenery. The Oregon coast is promoted as a cycling area and you see many cyclists rising to the challenge The next edition we will continue our drive along the coast to Newport.
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