Getting hung up on the Oregon Coast is actually a privilege. I can get to Chimacum in one day, which means the truck in "D" for 8 hours. Or I can find pull-offs for sleep in truck stops or Walmarts or the like. I want to do neither in a rain storm. The next rain break looks to be Wednesday, so I signed up to stay here until then. This is a super RV park. I've jacked them around all week as I changed plans almost every day since I showed up. You...
My plan was to "do" the Oregon coast at favorite stopping places, but now everything is closed, including RV parks. The state parks are closed, leaving no place to put an RV safely. So I signed on for a couple more days at the RV park I'm in to see what happens next. Things change by the hour. I want to do 101, but if necessary I can bail and head to I-5, and do the truckstop thing back to Chimacum. I'll decide in a day or two.
It's a rain event for a few days then I'll move northward. I'm bored. Bandon is slow this time of year in the best of times, but now the place is dead. It's a bummer not to be able to get fish and chips and sit wharfside watching sea gulls. Luckily I have a rather dense history book (Catherine the Great) which is perfect for killing time. Unluckily a video game I had didn't appeal to me, so I need to download another one So I'm moving on the...
One night here, then to Bandon, OR for a few nights to wait out a rain event. I'm trying to pick up my pace a bit to get to the peninsula sooner. Not many people around. Yesterday I went to Murphy's market in Arcata to get a few things and it was very slow. Their schtick was singing: all the employees, shelf stockers, butchers, deli, were singing as they worked. Then, the checkers were telling jokes. One thing to be done right now is the media...
Bars are closed, but pot shops are "essential" and open. I can think of a couple of bars that are essential to some of their customers. To the advantage of everyone in the community, bars need to be regulated like pot stores, open but with proactive social distancing rules. Otherwise, back doors will open, speakeasys will appear, public consumption will increase.
I'll be here for three nights. After I got parked, there was a 5.2 earthquake. There was a 5.8 about a week ago. No biggie but it makes you look up. RVs are always good places to be in quakes. My plan for moving north seems to be working. Bars and restaurants are closed, but groceries and gas stations are open. Other stores seem to be hit and miss. The groceries in Fort Bragg weren't any problem. I am very anxious to hear why toilet paper was...
Looks to me like a panic is starting. For the record, I do not trust Dear Leader at all. Luckily I have plenty of other sources for information. I am continually examining my strategy and will remain with my, usual, drive up 101. Gasoline is a resource I require at regular intervals. I can imagine there will be ideas about cleaning gas pump handles, but then that concept has never ever been considered. Notwithstanding, I'll make an effort to...
I'm in Fort Bragg along CA-1 at an RV park on a point over a tiny bay of the Pacific Ocean. The weather is exactly as I'd expect in the northwest along the coast: sun now, rain later, then sun, then rain, etc. The Mendocino coast is beautiful even in bad weather. Regarding coronovirus, Mendo has reported zero cases, the counties here are excellent at communication, local public radio is excellent at getting the word out, I couldn't get anymore...
Washington passed a law to address "Social Equity" which aims to compensate for the harm done to neighborhoods and people especially damaged by the War on Drugs. In other states this involves assuring that victims can get cannabis licenses, past criminal records are expunged, and those in prison for now-legal offenses are released. The concept was not invented until well after WA and Colorado legalized, so they have to catch up. About a year...
I'll be a couple of days, then likely head over to Fort Bragg later. Watching the weather, which is perfect right now.
I'm on US101. Those are long drives through half the state from the desert to the clouds near the ocean. But now it's a bunch of short hops northward until I hit Chimacum, likely taking 6 weeks or so. I'll sit in towns and fairgrounds and ports and such waiting out rain storms, moving when the weather and views are good. I'm in the Sonoma County Fairgrounds RV park which is always interesting. There are a lot of construction folk here, probably...
I got into the Fantasy Springs Casino lot in a stiff wind with a lot of blowing dust, glad to be off the road. Today I sat to let the winds die down. This was a good chance to check out the new Harborside pot store in Desert Hot Springs. They are particularly proud of their drive-through window though it's not the first in the country. Harborside is a famous old medical marijuana dispensary which started in Oakland and earned it's fame through...