In Las Vegas for a few days.

We left Tucson on Saturday and spent one night in Quartzsite. We arrived in Las Vegas today and are at Thousand Trails. We will be here for 5 nights and then head to Death Valley for a rally and enjoy the 49'ers Encampment.

We are at the Datastorm Rally in Tucson

We are really enjoying the Datastorm Rally in Tucson. There are over 120 rv's here with datastorm dishes on them. It is truly the 'city of blue lights'.

It's Windy in Palm Springs!

On Oct. 15th, we left Yosemite Lakes and drove down to TT Soledad Canyon for a couple of nights. That's near Palmdale, CA. The park is huge and nice. We found a dog park in Lancaster and got to let the dogs run for a while. They loved chasing tennis balls.

Today, we drove to TT Palm Springs. The wind is blowing at 35mph with gusts in some areas up to 50 mph!! It's supposed to die down tonight. We are heading to Apache Junction, AZ tomorrow and then to Tucson to the Datastorm Rally there.

In Awe of the Giant Sequoias

On Tuesday, we drove to the Mariposa Grove and took the tram ride around the grove. It was just awesome.


We couldn't get too close to the trees; they have determined that walking too close will damage their roots, so it was hard to get a photo with any perspective.


This was taken on the way back to the motorhome as the sun was setting.


Yesterday, we hiked to the Tuolumne Grove. There are about 20 sequoias there and it was a beautiful day and nice to be out.



This is one of the 'tunnel' trees. That's me standing in it.


The colors are starting to change. This is Gerald standing next to a sequoia that fell in 1983.

Visiting Manteca and Almond groves

On Oct 1, we went to TT Turtle Beach in Manteca, CA. This was a nice park and we got a great site. We have some friends with an almond grove and enjoyed visiting them and watching the harvesting of the almonds.

On Oct 5, we drove to TT Yosemite Lakes. It was raining and sleeting when we arrived so we didn't do much the first day. Yesterday, we drove into the park and went to the visitor's center.




Wildlife: so far, we have only seen several deer.

On to California

On Friday, we left Oregon and headed down Hwy 101 towards California. We stopped along the way to enjoy the view and spent one night in Klamath. Then, onto Thousand Trails Russian River Park near Cloverdale, CA.



We drove through the redwoods and they were beautiful, although hard to get a good photo through the windshield. The road was really narrow and we had to go really slow!


Here we are at TT Russian River.

Last few days on the Oregon Coast

These photos were taken north of Florence along the coast.

South Jetty for a few days (Florence, OR)

After the Monaco Corp combined rally, we drove over to the coast to the Thousand Trails South Jetty park near Florence, OR. There are sand dunes for miles along the coast. Lots of dune buggies are active going up and down them and it was fun to watch.

We drove along the dunes and found a beach access and took a walk down to watch the sunset.


This is Gerald with the dogs.


Click on the photos to enlarge.




Our new dog, Baron, loves Marquis' toys and takes them all back to the bedroom to nap with them.

Monaco combined rally in Salem

We drove to Salem on Monday to attend the Monaco combined homecoming rally (Beaver, Holiday Rambler, Safari, Monaco). There are about 500 motorhomes here at the Expo center and the facilities are very nice.

More photos from the Beach

Bothe of these are of Baron. He is fitting in right at home with us.




Here we are back at the motorhome.

A Nice Walk on the Beach

This morning, we took a nice walk on the beach. We are still at TT Whaler's Rest park, South Beach, OR, just south of Newport. It was very foggy. This looks like a rainbow, but we called it a fogbow!


Here are some photos of our new dog. He's a bit bigger than Marquis. Click on photos to enlarge.

There's a new addition to our family

Yesterday, we drove down Hwy 101 along the coast to Bandon, OR. It was so beautiful. Here's one spot we stopped at along the way in awe of the view.


There was a Cranberry Festival going on and the area Greyhound adoption agency, Homes for Hounds were having a 'Meet N Greet' and we wanted to see how Marquis liked being around other greyhounds. She ignored a couple and some ignored her. Then, we saw one that was so friendly and sweet and had such a gentle spirit. We decided to bring him home and they are getting along fine.


I'll try to get some good photos of them tomorrow.

Now visiting South Beach, OR

Yesterday, we moved to TT Whaler's Rest park in South Beach, OR. It's a beautiful area. We will be here till the 17th and then head to Salem to the Monaco combined Rally (Beaver, Monaco, Holiday Rambler, Safari).

Enjoying the Pacific City area

This area is very pretty with wonderful views of the ocean.









At the Thousand Trails RV Park, there are domestic bunnies just everywhere. Marquis is very interested, so we keep her on a short leash!



Our friends, Larry & Carolyn are here also and we are enjoying spending time with them.

I picked huckleberries one day and Gerald fixed huckleberry pancakes one morning.

From Seaside to Pacific City, OR

Today we drove down the coast to Pacific City and stopped along the way several times to enjoy the view and take pictures.






We are at Thousand Trails Pacific City. It is a beautiful park.