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Billy’s cousins, so glad to be out of that old Blazer.
Oh, the relief I felt when we first saw the mighty Columbia nestled in the Gorge that day. We were overwhelmed with excitement and fear of the unknown. Not much further and we would be arriving at my sister-In-law’s parents’ home. When we arrived, my sister-In-law along with her parents and children were there to greet us and we were so happy to see them. We made it safely and with all of our belongings.
Until we could find a home to rent, my sister-In-law’s parents let us park our trailers and Blazer on their property. We unhitched our trailers, gathered our camping supplies and headed down to the river to camp out at Peach Beach. That tent you see, would be our home for several weeks. We set up camp and just in time for dinner, my sister-In-law and her family arrived with a home cooked meal. After four days of eating on the road, a home cooked meal was just what we needed.
Peach Beach
The tent we will call home until we find one.
The next day we said our goodbyes. Billy’s cousins did a little sightseeing and then flew back to Oklahoma.
Where are we going and where are we going to live? That is the question we still don’t have an answer to. We decided to hit the Historic Columbia River Highway and then head south on I-5 and camp out until we found a place to live.
Mammoth Falls
We wanted to get back to the area we fell in love with on our trip, just northwest of Grants Pass, Oregon and start looking for a place to rent around there. On the way, we camped and checked out several small towns. I can’t remember all the places we stayed, but I do remember one of my favorite campgrounds at Dorena Lake. We stayed there several days and had a great time.
   
After Dorena Lake we drove down to the Merlin and Galice area and camped at Indian Mary Park. This is the area we originally fell in love with. We paid for two days and set up camp. You see the heat of Oklahoma was what we didn’t want and we soon found out that the temperature there got to be over 100 that day. We were told by Bill’s friend that it didn’t get that hot there, but we found out on our own and from the locals that it sure does. Unfortunately, this isn’t the place where we want to live. Our two nights we paid for quickly turned into one, due to the heat and we then headed back north.
Rogue River
Wet and tired of camping and needing to use Wi-Fi to search the internet for rentals, we headed to a motel near Dorena Lake in Cottage Grove. After that, we spent several days looking at rentals we had found online. Finding a home to rent “in the country,” as we called it, was difficult to say the least. Having no luck, we decided to go check out a place that had a rental we inquired about months before we left. It was no longer available, but the lady we spoke to gave the little town of Oakridge rave reviews.
 
Along Highway 58, on the way to Oakridge
This is where the saying in part one comes into play, “sometimes beauty can fool ya;" I was referring to this little town of Oakridge. A beautiful town nestled in Willamette National Forest and the Cascade Range. Above the fog and below the snow line, Oakridge offers a year-round paradise of outdoor thrills. A former logging town, is now known as the "Mountain Biking Capital of the Northwest." an outdoorsman’s paradise.
Did we find a home to rent “in the country” here, or did these folks even understand what these Okies meant by “in the country”?
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Saturday, January 7, 2017
How we arrived in The Great Northwest, Part 3 (Homeless in Oregon)
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