Pure nature in Oregon

09/08/2009 Article

You need to have your fleece jacket handy all day in Oregon and the water temperature has not changed from 9 degrees C, but you are fully rewarded with grand nature views, great waves and very liberal people. Best campgrounds ever, you can even bring two horses on some of them!!! Important: when the sign says full, come late with sleepy kids and tell the ranger in a thick German accent that the park ranger 100 miles North in another pretty state park told you that this one was the one we have to go to because it is so cool. Now the kids are tired and want their marshmallow and we need a last minute spot. Worked every time in Oregon! Campfires are very calming for the soul (and they warm the marshmallows for the kids!). I LOVE CAMPING! life is so simple in a camp, make food, use your axe to act like a man to make kindling to light a fire, read for five minutes and then go to sleep in your sleeping bag (BTW: the one thing I learned from the Arctic explorer Roald Amuldsen is that the greatest body heat – apart from wild sex – is generated when sleeping naked under seal furs; he of course learned this from the eskimos when he lived with them for a year. Try it: it really works. Women tend to resist relentlessly, but it works for them as well.

So here are some impression from our coastal trip. Our most memorable surf spots, a good day of windsurfing at Hood River (4.2 sail), a drink at the bar of the Timberline Lodge in memory of the Tommi Stürm / Gerry ascent of Mount Hood sulfur bowl with snowboards, a very large whale in Bandon, and lots of beaches and sand and fires…

when we started with our motorhome, we were very scared of its size. We quickly realized that on any given RV park we were lower mid class…