11/16 - Nelson

Hey everyone! We're really making progress, and still having lots of fun at the same time. Tonight, we're in Bandon, Ore. Yes, we went past the world-famous Bandon Dunes Golf Course on the way into town. Tomorrow, I'm sure we'll go out and pay a visit to the golf course. I'd love to play it, but my budget won't allow me to do so...but that's not because I don't have the money...it's because Bandon Dunes looks like it would be EXPENSIVE to play. Then there's also the fact that I'm not half the golfer that it takes to play a premier course like that one. It'll be fun to at least see it, though. Just like it was fun to see Pebble Beach's famous 18th hole when we were in Monterey a couple of months ago.

Anyway, today was cool. I slept in until almost 9, which is late for me, then got up and farted around a little bit. Made breakfast for us, and then we went into town to make our stop at the outlet mall. We took Molly and Lucy with us, too, because we wanted to let them play on the beach. It was really cool, seeing the two little ankle-biters running around, looking so happy. I'll attach some pictures of us at the beach in a bit.

You know, this experience has been really cool. We've been on the road now for five days, and it's been really easy to learn why people like doing this as full timers. You get to see so many things that you never even maybe knew were there...Who knew North Bend, Oregon was such a quaint little town, bordered by much better known Coos Bay, which is very industrial? Never would've known that Waldport, Oregon is a really cool small town in its own right.

Tomorrow, we'll finally cross the border into California. I'm sure we'll at least make it to Eureka, but who knows? We're in no hurry, really. It's getting easier and easier for me to live that way. I've always been focused on the next destination, and in a hurry to get there. But this experience has been very educational to me...and taking time to see what's out there (out here) in these places we hear about but perhaps never think about is pretty awesome.

To be honest, I haven't looked at the map yet, to see what cities and towns we'll see tomorrow as we keep going south. But I do know we'll see Brookings, Oregon, which I've never been to (at least that I can remember). Brookings is the town in Western Oregon that always seems to be the state's warmest city, no matter what time of year it might be.

I gotta say this, too, there are no better places to watch the sunset than on the Oregon Coast. None that I've seen anyway.

Until tomorrow...