Pacific Shores RV Resort
Sunday – 7 May 2000: Hello from Oregon!
We spent 7 hours on the road yesterday - well over our "comfort zone", but for
the first time, we really had a hard time finding a campsite. It happened to be
a beautiful Saturday afternoon on the Oregon Coast (a rare event) and our fellow
Oregonians flocked to the coast. We did stop several times and enjoyed lunch on
a bluff overlooking the Pacific. DT stopped at the new golf course in Bandon,
Oregon (Bandon Dunes) to look it over for a future visit. It is a Scottish-style
course, built into sand dunes on the beach.
The drive yesterday was fabulous. Because of the clear blue skies and
calm seas, we were treated to another breath-taking vista at every turn. But it
is a rough road and we felt we had been on a ship on tossing seas all day. The
State campgrounds were packed, so we ended up at a ritzy campground,
Pacific Shores, near Newport we had visited before. However, this resort
has been purchased by a group of "Resorts" and they are in the middle of huge
upgrades. It was a pretty nice park already, but when they are finished with the
improvements, Pacific Shores will definitely be one of the nicest campground in
the state - IF you own ONLY A MOTOR COACH, and ONLY if it is OVER 25 FEET LONG
and ONLY if it is LESS THAN 10 YEARS OLD and if you have a NON-AGGRESSIVE DOG
who only poops in the designated poop-places. Luckily (whew) we fit into those
categories and paid $48 for the privilege to park on their newly set concrete.
We tried to leave Snickers, but after waiting (outside the camper, in
silence) 20 minutes for him to calm-down, we gave up and put him in the back of
the BC2. Probably because I take him with me in the car often, he doesn't
mind being left in the back of the car! Dumb dawg. We went to the docks of
Newport and had dinner at a "Public House" owned by a friend. Snickers curled-up
in his dog bed and took a nap. The brew was excellent, but the food was not so
hot. We did win $3 in food credit in the trivia contest. (We did not know how
many blank tiles there are in a Scrabble game, or we would have won $4!)
This morning we walked down to what is left of the beach. A few years ago,
there was a terrible storm and several beaches on the coast disappeared. All
that remains here is rock - the sand is gone. We saw many purple and orange sea
stars, mussels and crab in the tide pools. But, we are checking-out of this
fancy place in a few minutes and will head up the coast, searching for
salt-water taffy.
ADDED LATER: We are home! Safe - and everything is fine
here at The Manor. The day was fun: we stopped in Depoe Bay for a scone and
coffee (and salt water taffy), stopped at Cape Kiwanda for lunch and made it
back to town in time for our long-standing Sunday night pizza date. (Lisa and
Kelsey had pizza together tonight in Washington, DC!)
Goldie covered 3,226 safe miles (every mile driven by DT) - many more were
driven in the BC2. 30 nights. We learned a lot, ate well and enjoyed spectacular
sights. Snickers didn't take to RVing as happily as we did - we will have to
work on a solution to this problem. We hope you enjoyed our trip as much as we
did - until our next adventure, I remain, your happy correspondent.
Our travel companions
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