Jacqueline’s Jaunts

03-09-22 Wednesday Depoe Bay and Newport, Oregon Sea & Sand RV Park Good Sam Jeeps in Parking Lot: 3 Drive Time: 0 Miles: 0 Arrived: 0 NEWPORT Beautiful rainbow above the ocean this morning and what a great thing to wake up too. Observed a couple of seals out in the surf this morning. They didn’t stay long. Watched two fishing boats troll back and forth. The beach in front of us is probably a mile long and I’m still amazed how clean it is. Barry wants to check out a gas station in Depoe Bay. The woman at Sea & Sand office told us it has propane. Nope....no such luck. We headed to Walmart for a few groceries and a new coffee pot, Ace Hardware for two more vent caps. On the way we found a few gas stations we can get the RV into for gas and propane. Planning for when we leave on Monday.  Lunch time and we found a brewery via Tripadvisor, Newport Brewery. Fell in love with this place. Beautiful murals on the walls. One of the servers informed us they were all painted by the art tea

03-09-22 Wednesday Depoe Bay, Oregon Sea & Sand RV Park Good Sam Jeeps in Parking Lot: 2 Drive Time: 0 Miles: 0 Arrived: 0 DEPOE BAY, OREGO N DAY TRIP Barry was up at 5:30am, he couldn’t sleep. He decided to make coffee and the coffee maker broke. Darn it! He tried to fix it but no luck. That darn thing isn’t even a year old. He had to make his coffee manually which was a pain in the you know what. Cereal for breakfast after I came stumbling out of the bedroom half a sleep.  We needed to buy a vent cap that blew off one of our vents on the roof, so I found a few Ace hardware stores and he called to see if the cap was available. The Ace Hardware in Lincoln City had one. After breakfast we headed to Lincoln City. What a great hardware store. I love roaming around a hardware store like this one.... days with my dad come to mind. Our Ace hardware stores are nothing like these, they sell RV supplies, guns, and ammo.  We then headed to the outlet center. We wanted to check out the Levi s

03-07-22 Monday Albany/Corvallis Oregon to Depoe Bay, Oregon Sea & Sand RV Park Good Sam Jeeps in Parking Lot: 2 Drive Time: 2.5 hours Miles: 78 Arrived: 2:00 ALBANY/CORVALLIS, OREGON Today is a drive day. Scones and tea for breakfast. Heading to Depoe Bay on the Oregon coast. We did have to stop on the side of the road because the RVi brake decided to disconnect from the Jeep. We pulled over on the side of the road and Barry had to unhook it then connect again and we were on our way.  Our two-hour drive took us on Hwy 20 West to Hwy 101. The drive was beautiful and as mentioned before, everything was green. You can see bald spots on the mountain sides and as we drove closer the bald spots were areas logged. There were numerous logging trucks passing us. The trees all had moss and lichen hanging on the branches, pretty. We still saw daffodil patches every now and then. Our planet is such a living, breathing, organism but who knows what climate change will do.  DEPOE BAY, OREGON  We

03-06-22 Sunday Day trip to Albany, OR Albany/Corvallis KOA Journey Jeeps in Parking Lot: 3 Drive Time: 0 Miles: 0 Arrived: 0 ALBANY, OREGON Beautiful weather today. We are spending two nights here and didn’t have to get up and worry about driving to our next destination. We got to relax a bit this morning. The KOA brochure we received when we checked in has an ad for a historic carousel and museum in Albany, so we decided to check it. Albany was only about a 15-minute drive from our campground. We had breakfast and headed out.  During our drive I noticed daffodils blooming in clumps off the sides of the road, in open fields and home gardens. What a beautiful surprise. In addition, rye grass fields everywhere. Surprisingly Oregon is the world’s largest producer of cool-season grass seed. The fields seemed to reach as far as the horizon. All the trees were covered with moss or lichen. It was a striking site.  We weaved through Albany following iMap’s directions to the carousel. We saw a