Tag: Travel

The Duke, David Niven, Doris Day, Lauren Bacall and Bogart! We feel like we are walking with the legends from Hollywood’s golden age. The Rookery, our home for the next few days, as it turns out, was built by actress Ida Lupino as a getaway from the paparazzi of the era. It’s located outside Grants Pass, Oregon at the end of a long drive next to the Rogue River. It is part of a small number of cottages that were retained and restored. Ours is a nice little 2 room cabin with a fireplace, small kitchenette and a hot shower. The perfect place to layover during the Wee Rover’s heart transplant! Here’s lookin’ at you!

The time has come to say goodbye to the Oregon coast. We have had an amazing time walking on the beach, sitting by the fire and spending time with new friends. Ron and Karen, hosts extraordinaire, became good friends and made our extended stay even more special. Now the hard part of traveling…saying good-bye (or toodles as Karen would say).
Thanks for everything!
We will see you when we see you.

Like our souvenirs, we have been selective about the travel stickers we put on the Wee Rover. It’s a space thing and well, we are picky. While shopping at the Langlois (prounounced Langlass) Market the other day, we noticed a really beautiful local artist designed sticker of Oregon! Since our time living on the Oregon Coast has been so awesome, and Oregon being where the Wee Rover is getting her heart transplant, we decide it would fit nicely, and close out the right rear panel of our travels in the north from the Arctic Ocean, the Northwest Territory, the Yukon, British Columbia and Alaska down to the Oregon Coast! We will have to start a southern panel as we venture to Baja and points south.

The park has been quieting down over the past week or so with the cooler weather. The vacationers have fled back to their homes leaving the travelers to flow through on their way to their next adventure.

Despite the quiet, Ron, the camp host, continues his work maintaining the trails near the park, which includes clearing dead trees. The benefit of Ron’s tireless work is we often have an afternoon campfire. We barbecue, share road stories, enjoy each others company and the quiet solitude of the park.

The best part is Ron’s dog, Budha, gets to enjoy the freedom of the empty park, as well as a few well earned cookies!

We had a request from one of our loyal followers to post a video of the Bandon (Coquille River) Lighthouse. Today, we were lucky to catch a ride to Bandon with our park host, Ron. He nicely swung out to the point so we could take a few videos.

The first video goes from the sea stacks to the lighthouse (cool orange parked car), including the foghorn in the background.

The second video starts at the lighthouse (cool orange car, again) in towards town.

And the last video is taken from town (specifically, the farmer’s market) starting out at the lighthouse and coming back towards town and the pier where people were crabbing.

Some history of the Coquille River Lighthouse can be found on this website.

A great legend about one of the sea stacks can be founf on this website.

Have a great day!