Vacation!

Vacation!  It's what you do when your wife graduates from nursing school.  Less than 24-hours after Sandi went through her completion ceremony, we were off to Kalamath Falls.  K-Falls, as we like to call it, is some where you can't get to from here unless you drive over 5 hours to southern Oregon.  We like to visit because our friend Marisa lives there.  This weekend was her wedding. 

 

Marisa and her fiance, Greg, incorporated their wedding into her church's annual campout.  We pitched our tent and joined the festivities.

 



Her dad, a pastor at the church not only gave the bride away, but officated the ceremony.  It was awesome to be a part of it.  There ceremony was a God-honoring event that served as a good reminder of the importance of family.  The reception was a fun mix of Maris'a southern-Oregon roots and Greg's southern-US roots.  It was too hot to dance, but the BBQ was great. 



After the wedding, we took off on our own to Brookings.  Neither of us have spent much time on the southern Oregon coast, so we dipped briefly into CA so we could start at mile 0 and head north. 

A highlight for me was cooking dinner on the campfire grill.  Sandi chopped the veggies and we grilled steak, mushrooms, peppers and potatos.

Cheers!

 We camped 2 nights at Brookings.  Tuesday morning, we left Brookings and headed for Florence.  It was extremely foggy and misty and our tent was all wet.  We decided to see if Honeyman State Park had yurts available.  If they did, we would camp.  If not, we would head home.  The yurts were all taken so we took a break from driving and had lunch in downtown Florence. 

 

North of Florence towards Newport is a very rugged part of the coast.  'Restless' is an apt description we read to describe all the tumultous waves crashing against the shore.  This video and photos below try to capture how rugged it is. 

 

 

 

We had a wonderful time and would love to spend more time in the central and south parts of our coastline.