Numerous updates to come

It has been quite a long time since I posted; we were in southwest Oregon near Crater Lake.  After leaving Collier Memorial SP, we drove to Sutherlin, OR as we wanted to check out the Escapee Co-op there.  It was really nice with good spacing and separation of the lots. Some of the owners have done extensive landscaping and others just enough, but all are well kept and neat.  This park's policy is one we agree with more than others.  When a lot is put up for resale there is a set base price, regardless of how many "improvements" or landscaping has been done.  What an owner did was for their enjoyment but they will not recoup the cost.  At other parks, if there has been "improvements" it is added on to the base cost of the lot.  We are monitoring lots in Arizona and sometimes the cost for a lot seems way too high in our opinion. 

This is the lot we rented for four days.  What you do not see in the picture are some bushes planted around the edges of the lot for separation.  This was one of the minimally landscaped lots.  We really enjoyed this Co-op; it was very enjoyable to walk in the evenings but it was quite hot, in the 90's while we were here.  We would stay here again if we ever came back to this area.  

During our time in the area, we drove to the central coast, near Coos Bay.  It was 40 degrees cooler on the coast than it was in Sutherlin.  In fact it was so overcast and foggy with rain it was hard to see much or do much walking around.  Though we did go through a couple areas where it was sunny. 

Cold and rainy coast near Coos Bay.

Just a few miles inland

A bit further south on the coast; good seafood shack.  Crabs were their specialty. 

From Sutherlin it was on to Cascade Locks and the fish hatchery.  More on our first volunteer experience in my next post.