A driving force for this trip out west was to meet up with my sister and her family. She is currently a travel nurse doing a contract in southern Oregon. We started making plans and then got our brother involved. A trip that was originally going to be to southern New Mexico ended up being to southern Oregon instead. We drove with our camper 2,600 miles to meet them. My brother flew. We spent five full days together exploring the region my sister currently lives in. We played in the snow on a frozen lake, we visited the deepest lake in the US, we crawled through caves, we hiked to a waterfall, we prodded our kids through a river canyon and over a giant rock formation on a trail named Misery. We had the best time. I’m so thankful for siblings who love to adventure, and who enjoy doing it together. My brother left two days ago and we will be heading out later today to complete the rest of our trip. I’m so glad we all made the effort to do this. We have made memories to last a lifetime. I can’t wait until we meet up to adventure together again.
We still have lots of adventure in front of us on this trip, but I’m pretty confident that a week adventuring with cousins will always be the gold standard for the best kind of adventure. The kids were sad to say goodbye and are planning when we can meet up again.
Day 13, we were back on the road today. We
slept in, packed up, spent a final hour at Moore Park in Klamath Falls
before saying our goodbyes to family and heading further west. During
our time in Oregon, we drove an additional 900 miles. After today’s
drive, we have made it to the west coast and have driven a total of
3,800 miles. So far, Northwest California has been narrow mountain roads
next to fast flowing rivers, similar in some ways to East Tennessee. We
drove through giant redwoods as we arrived at our campground at dark.
They are jaw-droppingly big. We can’t wait to see them in daylight. Our
campsite has some giant stumps and the kids can’t wait to explore when
it is daylight. I think we are going to enjoy our time among these giant
trees.
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