Gearhart, OR (4/12) to Pine Flat Lake, CA (4/15)

Bullards Bay State Park

Oregon Coast

Gas in Brookings, OR

Gas in Fortuna, CA

This will be a long first post as we have been on our trip since 4/12/2012 and I finally am in a RV park with WiFi that seems to stay on.  Hopefully when the blog is published you will see, in the above picture, our 5th parked @ Bullards Bay State Park that is located north of Bandon, OR.  The drive down the coast was beautiful, scattered showers, but always some sun on the ocean.

See the wild turkeys?

SEABISCUIT

The joke was on us for gas prices as we thought that the price in Fortuna was a sign of the times to come - wrong - we have paid from $4.09 to $4.29 since we left Fortuna.

Rick's ready to roll

Day 2 took us from the Oregon coast to the California coast and then through the redwoods.  Weather was again on the cool side with scattered showers but another beautiful drive.  We started looking for a place to stay @ 2pm and found Golden Rule RV Park about 5pm.  Just south of Willits, it was down a steep and winding road where we passed a sign telling us that Sea Biscuit was from there.  We shared the camp with wild turkeys, deer, jack rabbits and quail - no other campers.

Boat elevators on Clear Lake

Day 3 we left Hwy 101 to Hwy 20 to Hwy 16, Hwy 49 and finally to Hwy 16.  We drove by Lake Mendicino an Clear Lake, everything was so green an the wild flowers were beautiful.  Got lost going through Sacramento but found our way to Angels Camp where we spent the night.  Our weather has been cool - looking forward to finding warmer weather soon.