We're home.

We got to Roseburg around 5 pm Saturday and stayed with Mary's sister and brother-in-law, Patti and Chuck.

Some more of the local residents ( not related ). Wild turkeys, there were 14 in this bunch. Patti said that there used to be over 60 here and the game commission took a bunch "away".

It snowed Saturday night a little, and was still snowing when we left Sunday morning. Wasn't sticking on the road, but it was not too much higher than where we were.

Wasn't looking good on the road to Eugene, and we were starting to get concerned, but again, nothing to worry about.

On Bradley Hill just 10 miles from home.

  WELCOME HOME.

Mary said the snow was making her suntan peel.

We would have stayed away longer, we had Quazar waiting at home. He even recognized us.

We had fun on our trip, we hope you had fun following us. We ended up traveling 3375 miles, 5 states, meet some new friends and some old friends we hadn't seen for a long time.

The next trip will be to Mt Rushmore on the Harley when the weather warms up.

Dave and Mary.

Modesto to Roseburg

We really had some rain in Modesto, the buildings don't have gutters because most of the time they don't need them. For about 1/2 hour it rained really hard. After that it didn't rain again all night. The next morning the rain was gone and off we went.

Not much scenery for a while, just wide open, wide open.

We stopped at a rest area, and these birds were there. I couldn't hear them, but Mary said they sounded like a wind chime, a loud wind chime.

Shasta Lake. I don't know how much more the lake will fill up in the spring, but there didn't seem like there was much snow in the hills around there.

Mt Shasta. We didn't get to see it on the way down, but it looked nice on our way home.

Some of the smaller mountains along I5.

Once again, through the Sate of Jefferson.

A couple of metal sculptures along the hi way. I don't know how long they have been there, I don't remember them not being there.

The highest point on I5, the Siskiyou Summit. We're back in Oregon!

No rain all day, averaged for the day 67mph. Glad to be back in Oregon.

We're on our way home

We're finally on our way home. Mary had to toast our vacation last night at dinner.

Not too much to show in So. Cal. but smog and fog. We did break out into some sunshine in the mountains south of Grapevine.

The only thing worth noting was the egrets in a field along side the high way.

We did get good gas mileage though.

We are staying the night in Modesto Ca. It just did start raining as we got to the motel. After we checked in and went to dinner, we had to use the wipers a couple of times.

That's about it for today, maybe tomorrow we'll find it more interesting.

March Vacation Days 8 and 9

Wednesday we left Parker Az and headed to San Diego Ca. The temperature got to the mid 80's, really nice. Not much out there in Az but desert, although there was beauty in the desert too.

In the Yuma Proving Grounds, there was this sign, no rock hunting here!

Target Drone or Weather Balloon? We've seen this before and in about the same place.  

Sand dunes in Ca. just west of Yuma Az.

Interstate 8 heading west to San Diego, looks like the real "Rocky Mountains", most of those rocks are as big as our car.

San Diego.

The next morning. It didn't look like it was going to be a good day, weather wise, but it turned out to be nice.

Finally we made it to Sea World. A little nippy in the morning, probably in the mid 50's. Well nippy for us after being used to 80's.

Lots of beautiful fish there.

We found Nemo!

Another of their attractions is the turtles. Lots of turtles.

Lots of flowers too.

They do have some birds, but we didn't get to see too many of them, but we did see a few. Some were birds that belong to the park and some that call the park home.

"Happy Feet"

The real stars of Sea World are the Orcas. Shamu is the name of the Orca that is the star at the time, they all take turns being Shamu. 

A good reason to not sit real close. They told those people about the "splash zone", but those people didn't realize what the "splash zone" was. 

We took a tour that let us get close to some of the animals at the park and Mary got to interact with the dolphins and the moray eels.

She also got to interact with a big fish, I think he liked it.

They also had a couple of Polar Bears. It was nap time for this guy.

They also had 3 black and white dolphins, they looked like little Orcas. They aren't going to have any more of these dolphins, when they're gone, they're gone.

We had a good time at Sea World, it's worth the trip. They say that they aren't going to collect any more animals form the wild. If they get any more, they will be from other parks and zoos. 

Tomorrow we are going to head north, we don't know when for sure we'll be home, kind of depends on the weather. Right now the weather is still good here and we are in no hurry to get back in the rain and yuk.