James & Susan's Adventures

Coming out of the RV this morning I had an encounter with a large buck and 2 doe a deer!! They have been here most of the time we have been. Few miles from my sisters house we came across a herd of Elk. Didn’t get a picture of them Continue Reading

This picture was taken last night on top of the hill overlooking Astoria. The bridge goes over the Columbia River and the other side is Washington State. Now if you look far left of the bridge that is where the Pacific Ocean flows in. Today Friday the 14, Salmon season Continue Reading

They are everywhere. This is on the cart path between 8 and 9 on the golf course we played. James found the blackberry patch. He picked a colander full across from my sisters house and we made a blackberry cobbler. They are good and they are EVERYWHERE! Have a great Continue Reading

This golf course is just outside of Seaside Oregon on the coast. We walked 18 holes on Tuesday afternoon. Now the course is only 9 holes so we walked it twice. Great afternoon. On this hole, number 4, par 3, 76 yards, in the back over the houses is the Continue Reading

This replica was built in 2006. At the end of their westward journey the 33 members of The Corps of Discovery spent 4 months preparing for their return to Missouri. They named this “Fort Clatsop” after the local Clatsop Indians. You could walk inside the spaces and see how they Continue Reading

We went into Lewis and Clark NHP on Sunday to check it out. Really cool park, tons of trails and they did a great job on the replica of the fort. However we did one of the trails and yet another enchanted forest we hiked through. It was just wonderful Continue Reading

This is the Peter Iredale. In 1906 with an empty cargo it ran aground on the Oregon Coast here in Astoria on its way to Portland. They encountered a strong southwest storm, and the captain ordered to stand off the mouth of the Columbia River. After midnight that evening, the Continue Reading

You are looking at the Pacific Ocean, Astoria Oregon and this is the jetty where the Pacific Ocean feeds into the start of the Columbia River and it ends in Canada. I saw three surfers out in the water, very cold and it was very breezy, like sweatshirt breezy and Continue Reading

This is Mt. Adams which is in Washington and it is across the Columbia River. Like I am standing in Oregon at the same winery we were at by the Lavender Field, looking over the water to take this picture. So in front of us was Mt.Adams, in Washington and Continue Reading

This is just a section of the Lavender Farm. They were out of soap but I grabbed a sachet of the dried lavender. They had rows and rows just like this, you could pick and pay, you just sit in a chair in the middle. Cool place and I am Continue Reading