Goldendale Wa to Coos Bay Oregon

Thursday morning and it was frosty leaving GoldenGolden on our way to Coos Bay.

It was a lovely day.

We head south.

We head east to go west...

Down below the mighty Columbia.

Bridge over the Columbia and onto I 84 and the Dalles.

Beautiful day.

This is a heavy load.

Fires have been here recently.

I didn't take a huge amount of pictures as it was a smoky day.

The historic walking rail.

About 40 miles to the 205 bypass.

One big River. 

Stay in the second lane from left to get on.  There are 4 days.

Oregon has lots of fields.

The police had a road block on the north bound I 5 and the traffic was backed up for miles and miles.

We got off I 5 at drain headed west on 38 to Reedsport and the coast. Beautiful colour the whole way.

The little town of Drain.  Named after its founder Charles J. Drain who donated 60 acres of land to the Oregon and California railroad in 1871.

Fall colour.

Elkton...named for...you guessed it...Elk.  We didn't see any elk but we saw them last year.  Roosevelt Elk.

Big wood in Oregon...Eric says it's beautiful clear Douglas fir.

No elk.

Smoky.

Coming through Reedsport and then south on the 101.

Smoky along here too.  Manny says there burning slash.

North Bend just north of Coos Bay, Oregon.

Onward to Coos Bay.

Downtown Coos Bay.

Lots of history here.

We rolled into Connie and Manny's around 2:15 after a good day on the road.  Manny backed Eric up his driveway and we're parked.  Unloaded what we needed for the night and we're off the road. 

Eric and Manny catching up.

Manny made his famous clam chowder for dinner...yum, yum!

Tonight is ball game so Connie and I went to the Haunted Woods Athens local speedway.  We enter 2 years ago.

Up a big hill to pay and he a 1/2 hour wait to get in.  No pictures allowed so you'll have to use your imagination!  Much expanded over to years ago and long trails winding back and forth with ghouls jumping out around every corner.  Lots of screaming from Connie and okay..a bit from me.

Mitzi is cozied up.  She was so happy to see us.

Eric and Connie are discussing firestick and electronics.

No big plans while we're here...just visiting.

Kelowna BC to Goldendale Wa

 We were on the road this morning just before 8 am.  Sunny and no frost.

The bridge over Okanagan Lake heading up to west Kelowna.

Would you look at the traffic!

We head south to Osoyoos and the US border.

Okanagan Lake is huge and runs all the way to Penticton.

I love all the rock.

The little old town of Oliver.

Need any fruit?

Up ahead the US border. No there but us.  The border guard was friendly, asked a few  questions and when we said we were staying in Goldendale he said he had a cousin there.  Did we know they had a full sized Stonehenge there?  Nope..Neither did he and he laughed.   How long in the US, 10 days and then Mexico?  Took about 5 minutes, looked at nothing and have a nice day.  I think it's because we are such upstanding citizens😆

Welcome to Washington.

Downtown Oroville.

Tonasket another small town.

Coming up... Omak.

Here and for quite a way they'd paved the ruts.  Rough pavement and really hard to steer.

We stopped just before Wenatchee for fuel and lunch and diesel was, $4.75 US a gallon.  Way higher than other years.

South to I 90.

The mighty Columbia River.  

This is the bridge to Vantage on I 90 that we missed last year for some reason and ended up on an alternate route.  I guess things just don't always go as planned.

The Columbia River. 

Now we go up, and up and up!

And down and so and so on😁

Lots of trucks and quite a few with loads of bright green hay.

We're heading to Goldendale and this area has the most beautul fall colour.

We rolled into Goldendale just after 4pm after an 8 hour day on the road.  Staying at the Quality Inn and tomorrow Coos Bay Oregon.

Eric's having a beer and looking out the window.

Go Jays!!

So...they won and one more win to go and its back to Toronto!