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California Bound

29 08 2017

We’re California Bound, expecting to arrive on the northern California coast in about 10 days. Once across Utah and Nevada, we’ll spend 2 nights at Susanville, CA, then 2 more nights near Lake Shasta at Redding. We’ll cross over to the coast for 4 nights at Trinidad, CA then 3 more nights at Crescent City, CA before starting the return “loop” through southern Oregon.

Our first stop after leaving home is the KOA in Silt, CO. A favorite KOA, we’ve watched as the owners opened to torrential rains and a muddy mess of a campground about 3 years ago. Now nicely landscaped, we enjoy the spacious riverside sites the best. Our second night finds us back at Green River State Park. We visted this park last year and would note that it still suffers from over watering and a fly/mosquito problem. But, for a quick overnight – the cottonwood treed oasis is just fine. Tomorrow we’ll continue to western Utah at Delta. More from there…

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Good Morning from Silt, CO!

9 09 2016

After a fairly early departure from Vernal, we’ve arrived at this new KOA along the Colorado River by about 1PM. We’ll have park WiFi and good cellular access here allowing us to get caught up on at least the most critical work. We last visited this KOA about 2 years ago – with brand new trees, grass and gravel pads, and after an unusual amount of rain the entire park was left a muddy mess. Deep tire ruts were everywhere, it must have taken the grounds crew some time to fix broken sprinkler heads and fill in the ruts. Today you’d never know of these growing pains – the trees are healthy, the grass is lush and green, and the back-in sites along the river offer some of the best views of any RV Park. KOA’s are always a bit pricey, these premium sites are nearly $50 with applicable taxes. But, the amenities are many, a beautiful pool and spa area, a sparkling clean laundry room, equally clean and tidy showers and a great kids playground. Sites are long and level and provide a fire pit and picnic table. And the park provided WiFi isn’t bad, especially in non-peak times.

This is our last stop of the 2016 Olympic Peninsula trip. We’ve traveled nearly 4000 miles, parked at 18 different RV sites and spent 29 nights on the road. In all, a great trip, and one with many places we want to return to. Among those would be the Oregon Coast, Sequim and the Port Angeles/Port Townsend areas and Jordanelle SP near Park City, UT. We’d also like to spend more time along the Columbia River from Ft. Stevens SP/Astoria eastward.