For the last 15 years I have been going to Comic-Con, but things have gotten to commercial, and expensive so my wife (Blkwgn_wyfee) and I decided this year we would do a road trip instead. We had no idea when, or where we would go, so when we were invited on this trip it was an easy decision to go along. My work was crazy right up until the time we left so we had no plans other than to enjoy the trip, and go wherever the group went. This was going to be the longest camping trip either of us had done, the longest vacation either of us had taken, and the first big trip with the new to us trailer, all of this added up to a lot of excitement and we were not disappointed . Work had been a mad house since we got back, so I am just getting around to the trip report. This is going to be the first installment, and hopefully some of the others will fill in the details I have forgotten and share their photos as well.
So, here are the basics
4 rigs
Myself and Paige in the Power Wagon with home built teardrop trailer
Dwight and Maile (dflesher65) in the JKU with the AT Chaser
Steve and Shellie (mtngote) in the 4Runner
and Travis and Sarah (travis.diller) in the Tacoma
Using Roadtrippers.com, I made a quick (and rough) map of where we went, you can see it here We covered 2,435 miles over over 11 days From July 4 to 14. Most of the group was coming up the 5 from San Diego so Frasier Park seemed like a good spot to meet up. I thought I had a photo of everyone at our first meet up, but can't seem to find it, so you get a photo of my coffee that got me to Frasier Park
Our target for Day 1 was the Econo Lodge in the beautiful town of Westly Ca. The Econo lodge was not the way I wanted to start this journey, but when we arrived in town around 4pm and it was 105 degrees I was very happy to know that there was an air conditioned room waiting for me. It actually turned out to be a great hotel, inexpensive, freshly remodeled, comfy bed, and empty. When we arrived there were 5 vehicles in the parking lot (including our 4 rigs) and only one other showed up overnight. We had the place to ourselves.
We were so ready to hang out that we did not even make it to our rooms, the first couple of hours were spent enjoying the shade of the building while sitting in the parking lot then moved to the pool
Day two brought us continental breakfast and another travel day. The first part of the drive was nothing spectacular, I did find the farms interesting though monotonous, but it did soon change to views like this one from a truck stop, I think this was in Weed Ca
It also brought us to our first night of camping, and the "Start" of our trip in Klamath Falls Oregon
From here it was a short and beautiful drive to Crater Lake National Park. We spent 2 nights at the Mazama Campground inside the park so we could explore the area.
Here are a few photos from the various hikes around the lake
Highest point you can drive in the park
Annies Creek Trail
Well, I think this is as far as I am going to get for now, I seem to have been distracted binge watching the Long Way Round on Netflix. It is pretty good, really making me want to get out on another trip. I will wrap up this installment with a few more photos
[photo note, some of these photos do not have links to the full size image to speed the process. I will fix this in the future, but in the meantime, if you would like to see the full size image you can visit the gallery at http://blkwgn.smugmug.com/Locations/Oregon2014/n-zXPRc/ ]
So, here are the basics
4 rigs
Myself and Paige in the Power Wagon with home built teardrop trailer
Dwight and Maile (dflesher65) in the JKU with the AT Chaser
Steve and Shellie (mtngote) in the 4Runner
and Travis and Sarah (travis.diller) in the Tacoma
Using Roadtrippers.com, I made a quick (and rough) map of where we went, you can see it here We covered 2,435 miles over over 11 days From July 4 to 14. Most of the group was coming up the 5 from San Diego so Frasier Park seemed like a good spot to meet up. I thought I had a photo of everyone at our first meet up, but can't seem to find it, so you get a photo of my coffee that got me to Frasier Park
Our target for Day 1 was the Econo Lodge in the beautiful town of Westly Ca. The Econo lodge was not the way I wanted to start this journey, but when we arrived in town around 4pm and it was 105 degrees I was very happy to know that there was an air conditioned room waiting for me. It actually turned out to be a great hotel, inexpensive, freshly remodeled, comfy bed, and empty. When we arrived there were 5 vehicles in the parking lot (including our 4 rigs) and only one other showed up overnight. We had the place to ourselves.
We were so ready to hang out that we did not even make it to our rooms, the first couple of hours were spent enjoying the shade of the building while sitting in the parking lot then moved to the pool
Day two brought us continental breakfast and another travel day. The first part of the drive was nothing spectacular, I did find the farms interesting though monotonous, but it did soon change to views like this one from a truck stop, I think this was in Weed Ca
It also brought us to our first night of camping, and the "Start" of our trip in Klamath Falls Oregon
From here it was a short and beautiful drive to Crater Lake National Park. We spent 2 nights at the Mazama Campground inside the park so we could explore the area.
Here are a few photos from the various hikes around the lake
Highest point you can drive in the park
Annies Creek Trail
Well, I think this is as far as I am going to get for now, I seem to have been distracted binge watching the Long Way Round on Netflix. It is pretty good, really making me want to get out on another trip. I will wrap up this installment with a few more photos
[photo note, some of these photos do not have links to the full size image to speed the process. I will fix this in the future, but in the meantime, if you would like to see the full size image you can visit the gallery at http://blkwgn.smugmug.com/Locations/Oregon2014/n-zXPRc/ ]
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