Tripometer – 8005
Gas Gauge – 607.372 gal
Location – Champoeg State Park, Hammond, OR
Lodging – $32
Cans of OFF – 4
The rain stopped shortly before morning today and there were blue skies as we packed up the trailer to move. Sadly, the trailer and contents are still awfully wet. (Kelly woke up this morning when a large drop of condensation splashed her on the forehead.) We closed up the trailer, as wet as it was, and headed to the sewage dump in the campground. While we waited in line to dump our tanks, Paul captured the grassy road picture above. You have to keep your eyes open! Beauty can smell like a dump station! (We will not discuss why it might be so green.)
There was one sight at this little park that we hadn’t visited (mostly due to the rain), the wreck of the Peter Iredale. This ship was built in 1890 in the transitional period between wood sailing vessels and iron steamers. The Peter Iredale was an iron sailing ship, what’s called a transitional vessel. It was wrecked in 1906 in a strong storm. You can see one of the three white cylindrical mast seats on the left side of the picture. Kids were having a blast playing on this hulk of a vehicle – barnacles be damned!
Most of the rest of the day was spent tooling down Rt 101 along the coast of Oregon enjoying the beautiful views. Volcanic rock structures litter the coast with sharp pinnacles and soft, rounded, pillow-shaped rocks around every corner making for really beautiful views. We are planning on travelling along the 101 far south into California, so today was a nice preview of what we will learn to love over the next week or so.
Too funny not to pass along: Our nomination for best business name of 2018, a dog training service called:
“Your Dog Don’t Know Sit”.
Special Note: Ranger had an altercation with an aggressive male Golden Retriever about 5 or 6 months ago and ever since then has been aggressive towards other male dogs when he’s on a leash. We’ve been combating it as best we can, but we really aren’t properly equipped to deal with this kind of behavioral issue on the road. It has led us to be extra vigilant with him in public places around other dogs and has limited the amount of time we can let him off leash (we’re not positive it’s ONLY when he’s on leash, but we can’t exactly test that with strangers). It’s super frustrating for all three of us. Today was a bad day. He had a run in with a black lab that was running around the beach with no leash and had a second run in with a yellow lab at an ice cream stand this evening. We are both tiring of having to be mean and ugly to the dog for being a jerk.