We’re in Newport, Oregon now, staying at the RV park that is located at the Marina.
It’s basically a large asphalt parking lot with some narrow grass strips between sites. Plenty of room, it’s clean, and there are adequate facilities. It’s located adjacent to the boat docks, and the scenery (looking out over the boats at the giant bridge over the harbor) is nice.
It was blowing like Hell when we got here, and it stayed that way for a couple of days. But, the past three or four days have been beautiful…sunny, clear, fresh air, etc. Very nice. (And, then, as soon as I said that…it started blowing again! Damn!)
Baby likes it here: lots of acreage to walk and sniff, “fishy” smells, friendly people with dogs, etc. At the end of a hard-working day, she likes to fall asleep in between my legs as I watch TV. It’s a rough life.
Newport is a pretty compact town with most of the basics. Interestingly, it has one car dealer who sells just about every product except General Motors stuff.
Here at the Marina, there is a Rogue microbrewery which has tours and also has a little pub/restaurant. We ate there and the food was good: I had a Seoul Burger, and Charlie had the Fish (Halibut) and Chips. Excellent!
I’m not a beer guy, so I passed on trying out their many unusual offerings.
Just north of Newport, maybe ten miles or so, is Depoe Bay. It’s a small, touristy dot on the map, with a mini-harbor. Very picturesque, with a seawall, beautiful bay, breakers crashing onto rocks, and whales in the small bay. We were told that a pod of 14 whales makes this place home in the Summer. We saw some spray from blowholes!
There’s a neat RV resort in the area called Pacific Shores. It’s one of those “ownership” parks that rent out space to transients (like us) on a space available basis. It reminds me of the Las Vegas Motorcoach RV Resort without the mega outbuildings that owners have erected. Maybe that will happen here over time. But, the location here at Pacific Shores is really nice…right up on a cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean…in beautiful Oregon.
I would be a player to buy a lot here (as little as $21,000) except that they have a strict limit of two “well-behaved” dogs per site. (I suppose we could teach one of the three dogs to be not well-behaved at this place…so we could quality?)
Charlie and I had dinner the other day at a small joint called “Sharks” across the bay. They had a very limited menu, all seafood, but it was excellent: I had Cioppino with Pasta, and Charlie had Garlic Pasta with Seafood. Very good!
Believe it or not, I have a tentative RV Trip schedule already made out for 2019. We are going to leave about one month later next year (June 1), when temps start hitting 100 degrees out in Mesquite. We will hit many of the same spots as this year, but, in the beginning of the trip, we will go north on 395 along the Sierras and stop in Lone Pine, Mammoth Lakes, and Truckee before heading north toward Oregon.
At least that’s the plan as of now. Lots of things could change…and usually do!
Next week (Monday) we head south to Coos Bay. We will stay there, on the beach at Oceanside RV Resort in Charleston, for a month. Our spoiled dogs are already dreaming about it.
Speaking of dreaming, we’ve been eagerly anticipating the start of our house project in Mesquite. It finally happened this past week! They’re digging trenches now.
