Wednesday, June 13 - TT South Jetty, Florence OR 97439

It rained overnight, dang it we will have to use the jacks to slope the coach enough that the water drains off the slides before we being them in.

A travel day today so we are organised early, as usually happens, even though we only have about one hours drive south from Newport to Florence OR.

Almost as soon as we leave Newport we come across Seal Rocks – didn’t see any seals today but I guess you could if you pulled off the road and walked down to the beach.

Seal Rocks

Then we drive through the little seaside towns of Waldport where the majority of houses seem to be jammed together on the sand spit.

Everybody wants to live on this spit of land, it must be good

Yachats, which still seems like a spelling mistake to me, is another tiny seaside town we drive through.  We stayed somewhere here last time but I can’t see where it was.

It's a very scenic drive as head south today, most of it right beside the sea.  The road is narrow so Kim didn’t get to see much but I took lots of photos for him.  There were a couple of good switchbacks and some steep fall offs down to the ocean – all on my side!

We drive through old town Florence before we arrive at Thousand Trails South Jetty.  We have quite a few sites to choose from today, I guess Wednesday is a good day to arrive although there are still a lot of annual sites (leased by individuals) which are chained off.  These seem to be mostly the sites with FHU.  Not many others have sewer and none that we can get into so we make do with 50 amp power and water and try and get close to the bathrooms.  L&L rock up while we are still deliberating if we should move to site 104, but they can get satellite TV  here next to us so we unanimously decide to stay where we are, site 134 will be our home for the next 6 days.  Nice to have our lovely neighbours close by again.

Immediately after setting up Kim is out giving the motorhome a wash/clean, we did get rather grubby getting in here today!  But the camp chairs are out, the coach is cleanish and it’s another whole day tomorrow.

At 3.30pm we are collected, again right at our door - it’s like our very own special limo service - L&L are taking us to the Elks Club tonight.  HH starts at 4pm and dinner tonight is their Wednesday special of St Louis Ribs - OMG the ribs are soooo good!  Sticky fingers for each of us!  The food is so good we are contemplating coming back here on Friday night for the Prime Rib night - and there will be live music.

It was quite an early start this afternoon, so it is also an early finish and even though we didn’t have a big driving day today, it is nice to lax back, watch a little TV and soak up the ambiance.  The blue sky is back, the sun is dappled through our trees and life is good!

A little bit later the Highwaymen are on TV so it ends up a latish night for us.