Oregon Coast with Jul and her boys and Alex

June 2022

Jul loves Oregon. Weston’s dad and grandparents live there and they try to visit or have the boys come visit them each year. So we decided to combine this with some time on the coast and make a trip of it!

They flew to Portland, took a shuttle to the coast, and spent a few days in a little place right by the beach in Lincoln City while I drove out. Did the boring drive to Reno after working for most of the day, drove and then stopped to work in a little town in northern CA the next morning, then finished the day visiting a string of beautiful waterfalls.

Montgomery Creek Falls
Hatchet Creek Falls
There was a group of annoying kids who played their music at top volume so it was not exactly the peaceful commune with nature that I would have desired
Had to hike in to this little beauty
Burney Falls…gorgeous!
Lower Falls, McCloud River
Middle Falls, McCloud River

Upper Falls, McCloud River

Stopped for painfully expensive gas in Weed CA
Sleep at Valley of the Rogue State park rest area
And woke up to these awesome wood sculptures and some cool pioneer stuff
Drove to cave junction and got tickets for the cave tour starting a couple of hours later. Joined a video meeting for work that should have been 30 minutes but ended up longer than an hour! and had to RACE up the mountain to make my tour time.
Oregon Caves are really cool!
I’m really claustrophobic so going last really helps me
This formation they think comes from ancient bacteria that secreted the CaCO2 to protect themselves!
Check out the faulting!
I got a pin for being the official caboose 🙂
There was a beautiful waterfall right outside
Almost to the coast! Stopped for a lighthouse on my way to my campsite at Oregon Dunes
The ocean! I’m so happy!
I couldn’t find my site (it was out on the dunes somewhere so I wouldn’t have been able to get there anyway without a different vehicle) so I slept in the parking lot. But first went hiking out on the dunes right at sunset. Gorgeous!