January 17, 2014
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Epic Road Trip, day 23, part 2
Making our way from the lovely town of Klamath, we stopped on the side of the road to grab a geocache in the redwood forest. The redwoods are ginormous.
And that’s not the only thing that grows big around here, the clovers were also huge!
Wandering though some town or other, I was stopped at a traffic light and down the street I saw a school sign that made me laugh and grab for my camera. As usual, something got in my way and it’s not the best shot of the trip but doesn’t it seem funny to you that they have cougar pride at Crescent Elk School? They excel at lunch, PE and recess! Rawr!
It always feels like home when I see this sign. Not that I live in Oregon but it was home for a long time so it still feels like it. There’s a cache here I’d already found but I let the kids jump out and find it as an excuse to get their picture by the sign.
Besides, there are pretty flowers there.
We drove on through Oregon, stopping to see the foggy coast when we could and generally making good time. We spotted these cool statues on the side of the road so we stopped for some photo ops and to stretch.
After sitting on the little bear we saw the tiny sign that said to keep off and that we’re being videotaped to discourage our climbing. We shoved off and ran for the car to make a quick get-away after that.
The fog lifted somewhat and stopping at the pullouts on the highway became more pleasurable for my camera.
When we saw this sign in Port Orford we were all ready to stop and use their restroom and find the cache on the grounds.
Tried to pretend the dinosaur was chasing the kids but all three characters were just too goofy to pull it off.
Hello. How YOU doin’?
After we’d done what we came to, we continued up the coast to my SIL’s, stopping occasionally for a view or a cache. We were all excited to arrive, the kids were going to be seeing their cousin, after all! And after so much electronics deprivation the kids were ready for some zone-out-with-a-movie time and to play on their aunt’s computer.
But I wanted to stretch my horizons and find a cache further west than I’d done before so we stopping on a section of the coast that jutted out into the ocean. There was an ancient cemetery there so after we found the cache, Quin acted like a zombie while I tried to get artistic photos of tombstones. Artistic photos – 0. Zombie photos – 4. Zombies of the one-legged variety won the match hands down. So to speak. This zombie collected all his body parts before we left.
Later we arrived at our last stop before home, but we got to stay here a few days so the adventure isn’t over yet.
