Camping near Medford

Mile 1495

We are camping again tonight. We checked into a campground just west of the town of Medford, Oregon. Got here just before 8pm. That's right, almost three days since we left we finally got outside of the state of California. We crossed the border at mile 1433. Here what's happened since our last post:

After breakfast this morning, we found out that the world's tallest tree is not actually in Redwood National Park. It's in Humboldt Redwood State Park, about 50 miles south, the wrong way, from where we were. We couldn't come all this way and not see the world's tallest living thing. So we decided to drive all the way down to see it. At mile 1257 we found it. They don't actually allow dogs on the trails in this park, but we were able to sneak in and snap a couple of pictures. It was only about 100 yards in from the trailhead. Like I said, couldn't come all this way and not see it. It's a good thing that we made the trip. If you really want to see magnificent Redwoods, go to Humboldt. It was so much better.

Then we turned around and backtracked north, up the California coast. Took another beautiful drive from Crescent City to the Oregon border. This road follows the Smith River, and it was gorgeous! We even made it down to the river once.

A couple things about northern California and Oregon that we noticed. There a lot of drive-thru coffee shops. They are everywhere! So convenient. We don't have many of them in SoCal. I've only see a couple back home. The other thing is that there a lot of hippies. Or at least people who are into the hippie culture. Seems to be a very liberal area too. Saw a gigantic "impeach Bush" sign hanging on someone's house.

We are heading for Crater Lake in the morning.