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.

Wordless Wednesday

Alfred A. Loeb State Park

Brookings, Oregon

April 2018

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Wordless Wednesday

Depoe Bay, Oregon

July 18, 2017

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New Name!

Now that we've moved to the coast, Prairie Horizons doesn't really work for this blog anymore, so I'm trying out a new name. Since I'm posting about our adventures, as well as books, I decided not to use Lesley's Book Nook, either (although that remains in my URL with Blogger). I was also going to add "fish tacos, brews, and chasing sunsets," but that got too wordy and was voted down by my husband. :) We're picking up our Canadian 19 foot Escape travel trailer in August, so that's where the backroads come in. Lots of road trips on the horizon! So, unless I change my mind in the next day or two, you're now reading Coastal Horizons... books, beaches, and backroad adventures. I hope you enjoy all that I plan to share in the coming months. 

Rod & I are settling in to our new home and community and loving retired life (although we've never been so busy!). I hope to share more pictures in the coming weeks, but here are just a few from yesterday. We volunteered to help clean up our private cove, which gets a lot of driftwood from the winter storms. It was a lot of fun and a great way to meet more neighbors.