May 6 - 7, 2026 Cape Blanco State Park, Oregon

 High of 56, foggy and cloudy.

Fog on the Redwood Highway as we travel north. We stopped at Elk Valley tribal fuel market to get fuel, best price in northern California $6.35. We saw $7.55 and $7.45 in Crescent City. But in Brookings, Oregon it was also $6.35. 

Elk valley, there were even elk in the valley.  There had not been other years when we stopped. Elk of many legs!

The bus at Cape Blanco State Park, Oregon. Oregon now charges and extra 25% more for out of state camping in their state parks. It is $70 a night. Yikes. Welcome to Oregon, wild foxglove, rhododendron, beach angelica, false lily of the valley, sea rocket, and lupine. 

Views from the state park. We are right on the ocean.

Wild iris, purple violet, yellow violet, huckleberry, spring beauty, cuckoo flower, salal, oregon grape. Path to the edge of the cape. 

Ocean, knife rock and the lighthouse at Cape Blanco. Moss on everything here. 

Sea anemone, fringe cups, windmill pink, sea thrift, ice plant, cinquefoil. Woo hoo the sun came out! We hiked down to the beach. Lots of huge log driftwood. 

Whimbrel's in the surf. Flying whimbrels.

Cormorants nesting on the side of Knife rock. Small stream draining into the ocean.

Squirrel on the beach. beach rocks with embedded fossils and rocks .and plantain. Walking back on the beach.

John found a driftwood chair.

May 4-5, 2026 Klamath, California

 59 and cloudy.

Golden bear on the corners of the bridge in Klamath, we went to Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park., fiddle heads, heart shaped leaves, trillium and Solomon's seal. Wood sorrel, false lily of the valley, anemone, fiddle heads and thimbleberry. 

John with a HUGE downed redwood. John with redwoods.

John with redwoods. Some elk by the visitors center.

Wild dangerous elk. John in Fern Canyon

Twisted stalk flowers hang below the leaves, wild cucumber, monkey flower, salmon berry, warning-bigfoot!, piggy back flowers. A waterfall in fern canyon.

The creek in Fern canyon. You get wet feet walking in the canyon. Fern canyon. The walls are covered with ferns.

John having lunch in Fern Canyon. There are a few different kinds of ferns on the walls of fern canyon.

Fern Canyon,

Vetch, cinquefoil, sand bindweed on the beach, sand dollar, giant vetch, daisy, beach strawberry, yellow sand verbena. Trail crew hauling a big piece of wood. 

Beach elk crossing in front of the truck. John on the beach in the Redwoods.

Beach at Prairie Creek Redwood state park. 

April 29 - May 3 , 2026 Shingletown to Del Loma to Klamath, California

 70 and sunny

Mt Lassen National Park. We are parked at the Mt Lassen KOA. Pretty place, but would be crowded if it was full and way too expensive. We don't usually stay at KOA. 

Couple cute things here at the RV park. I finished this beauty today. It is made from dyed pine needles, polyester thread, wooden, glass and blue magnetite beads. The center is slate that I sand blasted and painted a petroglyph guy on. It is 12 x 11 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches 

It is so nice to beak in trees. Conifers in the California foothills. Oak trees with yellow flowers and lush green grass. 

Whiskeytown Reservoir outside of Redding. I sat in my lawn chair and worked on a basket, surrounded by poison oak.

The bus at Del Loma RV park on the Trinity river.  Del Loma RV park sign with bigfoot. 

Red madrone trees with moss covered rocks on the trail to the river.  Blue dicks, hairy pink, oat grass, black fence lizard, missing part of it's tail, hairy vetch and scotch broom. 

84 degrees today. Warm enough for dinner outside. We are at around 1,000 feet elevation and I feel great, like I could jump tall buildings. The altitude kicked my bum. Who would have thought after all those years in Colorado. Pileated woodpecker, deer bush, tar weed, black locust, quaking grass and a rose here at the RV park.

Dwarf lupine and rose clover, silver bush lupine, manzanita, Purdy's iris, and haircap moss. Sunset tonight. 

Full Flower moon rising. We are in a deep  river canyon, so the moon rose over the mountains about 2 hours later than the lower horizon and there were a few clouds. Another masterpiece done. It is made from dyed pine needles, polyester thread, glass beads and the start is glass. It is 6 x 4 inches. 

Sunset. Valley tassel, California scrub jay, and a manzanita bush. 

You can tell we are getting closer to the coast, this if fog coming over the mountains. The bus parked at high of 56, cloudy/foggy an some rain. The bus at Klamath Kamper Corral in Klamath, California. Right in the middle of redwood country. You can tell how much rain they get here, they park us on the grass. 

We practically have Klamath Kamper Corral is to ourselves.