What We Did on Our Summer Vacation 2005
That's a good place to start. The house project is pretty clear on the right side of the website. More than that we had a great time exploring the area. It's home of America's Wild Rivers and we had a channce to go up the Elk and Sixes Rivers for day outings. The rivers in the summers are great.

The Forth of July was a fun time. A parade and fireworks. THe best fireworksd show that I'd ever seen. Right over Battle Rock. A really big show just about 200 yards away. More intimate than say... Sea World.

Amy was the fundraising Chairperson for the Port Orford Jubilee Committee. They raised the $$ for the fireworks.

We had a few friends visit. Both families stayed in the campground at Humbug State Park.

We saw lots of stars, like we'd never seen before. Shooting stars too!

If you look at the pictures liked above, you'lll see that there were days of fine surfing and we had great beach days.

The Departure
It was almost surreal. After months of planning, packing, forgetting and gathering I found myself and my family heading north out of San Diego. For how long I wasn't sure. We had packed about half of our belongings and set out for our own Oregon Trail.

Twilight had been repalced by the steady stream of white and red lights in both directions. The next 120 miles would be landscaped with concrete and asphalt.

Once you got past L.A. the traffic wasn't bad, we missed the rains by a week. Some of the roads had seen mudslides.

Amy drove the Toyota Sienna with Jason and Jonathan. I was in my car following.

We stayed the first night in Buttonwillow. The second night (Wednesday) in Livermore and headed to Hopland, CA to visit Real Goods.

On Thursday night we stayed in Eureka.

Our last travel day has become a ritual of visiting one of the redwood forests and a stop at the Noll Surf Shop in Crescent City. From that point it's a few short hours to Port Orford. A beautifiul drive along the coast. Breathtaking.

Here is a link to our home for the next three months, staying at a vacation rental home, The Joan of Arc vacation rental. It's a 1920's home.

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