Journey Westward in Search of…

coast range farm camping

In a less than two weeks I will be hitting the road with the boys for our second road trip to Oregon. We’ll follow our itinerary from two years ago more or less. We’ll first land at one of my favorite concert venues for 3 days of camping and bluegrass music at the Northwest String Summit. The boys loved it the last time and will appreciate the peacocks and swimming pond even more now since they’re a bit older.

Then we’ll wander down the coast exploring tide pools, old growth forests and getting very sandy. The coast tour will bring us to the glorious garden camping venue on our friends’ country farm in the coast range near Deadwood. There we will wake up in the mornings to gobble some blueberries and blackberries off the bushes, play in the creek and catch crawdads, explore the forest and catch up with our kind-hearted friends. Perhaps the boys can even do some pottery work with Margi. The last time we had a clay workshop with her, Canyon stuck a whole blob of clay in his mouth and swallowed – talk about freakin you’re parents out!

After we stuff ourselves on Deadwood berries and good times, we’ll head back up the coast to Cannon Beach for a rendezvous with friends for a wedding at Ecola State Park to round out the trip. This time it will be just the boys and I’m sure we’ll have some stories to share when we return.

the boys climb their first deadwood tree

~ by c4hair on July 6, 2008.