May 24 - 2018 Crescent City, CA - May 25-26 - 2018 Prospect, Oregon

Once in a while, even though we are on “vacation”, we have to take time for practical things (small repairs, general maintenance (vedligehold), defrosting the freezer (afrime fryseren) etc. etc.) Thursday, May 24, was such a day.

When the work was done, we went to see the Pacific Ocean for one last time (we won’t see the ocean again until we are back in Denmark). We had planned on spending more time at the beach, while in this area, but the weather has been foggy and grey, so it hasn’t been too nice by the water.

 

 

Crescent City has a nice beach, with big waves. We saw some surfers…

And found sand dollars (en slags søpindsvin).

Crescent City is built close to sea level, on a part of the shoreline, that is very prone to tsunamis. In 1964 the town was almost totally destroyed by 4 tidal waves, caused by an earthquake in Alaska. I found this interesting. We have heard about tsunamis in places like Japan and Thailand, but I had never thought much about them happening in the USA.
I guess Minnesota is too far away from the ocean.

We also went for a last walk in the woods. JJ wanted to go on the walk that I had done alone on Monday.
Once again, we found big trees and peaceful quietness.

This cypress tree is one of the plants that uses a "host" tree to grow on.
I thought this one looked strange, because the "host" (a redwood tree)
was decaying, leaving the tree way above the ground.

Friday, the 25th we made a short move (135 miles/ 215 km) to Prospect, Oregon.
Pretty non-eventful. It rained most of the day.

Saturday, the 26th, we explored the area. We are staying at a campground, that is in the middle of a wilderness area. There are lots of creeks, hills, woods, rocks, and a river. We drove out to see a couple of waterfalls, a river, and “Lookout Mountain”. All very nice.

 

 

I thought there was going to be a Memorial Day parade in town today. (Memorial Day er en national dag, hvor amerikanerne minder alle soldater og den indsats, de har gjort for deres land. Selve dagen er den sidste mandag i maj. Det er en af de få 3-day weekender amerikanerne har.) Prospect is a small town of about 600 people, so we thought it would be fun to see a small-town celebration. Turned out that it was Prospect, Pennsylvania that was having the parade. I guess I was quite a bit off☹

In the evening, the campground hosted a weeny roast (pølser). They had a nice fire and a woman singing songs from the 60's and 70's. We went for a couple of hours, talked to some new people, and had a nice time.

 

Written by Mary