One Year Anniversary!

First Trip

 Lynden, Washington

August 2, 2017

Last Trip

 Alfred A. Loeb State Park

April 18, 2018

It was one year ago today that we bought our Escape 19. We loved our travels on the road in this little fiberglass "egg" and in the short eight months that we owned her, we 

• traveled 3,204 miles
• spent 25 nights camping
• boondocked 3 nights
• camped in 4 Oregon State Parks
• camped in 2 Washington State Parks
• camped in 1 California State Park
• camped in 2 KOAs
• visited the Olympic National Park (and a rain forest)
• visited the Redwood National Forest
• visited family and friends in California
• camped with a herd of elk, peahens and peacocks
• spotted eagles and great blue heron
• 5 signs warning of bears or cougars
• 0 bears or cougars sighted
• 1 sewer hose lost on freeway
• and only got locked out of our rig once

We thoroughly enjoyed our time in our travel trailer and you can read all about our travels in "Sweet Pea" by clicking here. I am still working on my travel posts, but will update this link as more posts are added.

Olympic Peninsula Trip - The Family

Run, Jax, run!

Quinault River Inn

A walk in the woods.

Lake Quinault, WA

Lindsay, photographer extraordinaire!

June, Jax, Dad & Lindsay

Quinault River

Maple Glade Rain Forest

World's Largest Sitka Spruce

Quinault Lake, WA

Merriman Falls

Quinault Lake, WA

Riverview RV Park

Forks, WA

Rialto Beach, WA

Quillayute River

Fork, WA

Point Hudson Marina & RV Park

Port Townsend, WA

Doc's Marina Grill

Port Townsend, WA

Dosewallips State Park, WA

Our first big adventure was shared with my dad, stepmom June and (at Quinault Lake) my stepsister Lindsay. Dad and June showed us their favorite campgrounds and without their experience as well-seasoned RV travelers, we probably wouldn't have found these gems or done half as much exploring! It was a fun-filled two weeks and we were so happy to spend it with family. 

Click on the links to read more about our adventures.

Olympic Peninsula Trip - Day Fifteen

Sunday, October 1, 2017
Hammond, OR to Depoe Bay, OR
Distance: 120 miles
Duration: 3 1/4 hours
Weather: 60 degrees and sunny

It rained through the night, but the sun was shining when we woke up. We decided to take a walk out to the beach to see the Wreck of the Peter Iredale. It was a pretty walk along the bike path and I made a mental note to bring our bikes on our next trip to this park.

Oregon grows really big banana slugs!

The remains of the shipwreck were pretty impressive and it was a beautiful morning to get some photos against the vivid blue sky. There were a lot of people out on the beach flying kites and enjoying the nice weather. 

I'll take the banana slugs over a cougar encounter any day! 

Really nice trail for biking or walking.

  

Great place to stop for lunch.

Pretty impressive retaining wall.

We headed home at 1:00 (check-out time) and made a lunch stop at the wayside on Neahkahnie Mountain. Stunning view of the ocean, which was a nice way to end a great trip!