The Trip is Almost Over

Jul 7, 1984 Sat0
In the early 80's I traveled to a few places and kept a travel diary. I thought my sons would some day enjoy reading my diary so I have decided to put it in my blog. I will enter my diary here as I wrote it years ago when I was a much younger man. I was 24 years old in 1984. At this time in my life I was traveling to Toronto Canada every week and I got bumped from a flight. Delta gave me a free ticket to any place they flew in the 48 states. I looked at their route map and the farthest I could fly was Seattle, Washington. So I packed my bags, tent and sleeping bag and headed West. I drove around the North West for a week.


10:20AM Sitting at the old Cascade Locks in the city of the same name in Oregon. Thursday night I decided to go back to the coast, take in some more of the Redwoods and drive up the Oregon coastline. I'm glad I did. I took a 1/2 hour hike through a part of the Redwood Forest at about 9:00AM. It was great.

The Panther Flat Campground in Six Rivers National Forest was neat. I woke up Friday morning to the sound of a brisk wind blowing through the trees. I also drove through the Oregon Dunes National park. Stopped near Salem, Oregon to buy a foam sleeping pad, film and to eat dinner. Called home from a rest area near there also. Camped at Ainsworth State Park in Oregon on the Columbia River.

Jul 6, 1984 Fri
Redwood Forest in the early morning.

Met an old couple from Louisiana this morning. They traveled 3 1/2 months in 1982 and they want to beat that record in 1984. We talked for about an hour. I could have listened to them all day. They had some funny, interesting stories. The lady has a brother in Apex. She has toured the old Raleigh Capitol building and the thing she remembers is that there is a statue there of George Washington wearing a toga.

I'm going to take it easy today and wind down for the trip home tomorrow.

Jul 6, 1984 Fri
Only one more night of camping left.
Bobby
Redwood National Forest and Conversations with a California Hippie Late Into the Night




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