Somewhat of a slow, lazy day today, not many miles to drive, not much to see or do. I suppose you need those every so often on vacation!
We took our time with breakfast and packing up to leave Indian Mary Park. Several in our group took advantage of the showers at the park to freshen up. Noontime, which is checkout at the park, came around and we rolled on out, heading back to Merlin to grab lunch.
Funny aside about how technology has changed the family car trip. Every time we have electricity we are swapping electronic devices to charge them up: Nintendo DS, portable DVD players, laptop, cell phones etc. At the campground we plugged our cell phones right into the jacks for the electrical hook-up for trailers. In the car, we're rotating plugs in the cigarette lighter (what do we call these now? They don't actually light cigarettes anymore...)
We were telling our kids today (OK, threatening them with taking away their DS players if they wouldn't stop fighting) that when we were kids we had books, tablets and car games, no electronics, and WE survived!
After lunch we traveled the backroads of Josephine County to wind our way to Hwy 199 and Cave Junction. There, we stopped to pick up food for dinner, then hit the used bookstore because Kevin needed a new book to read. (Blew through "On Writing" by Stephen King, an excellent memoir/writing instruction book. Highly recommended). He went with a Grisham novel he hadn't read yet, good that he is several behind and needs to catch up.
From Cave Junction, we cruised south about 10 miles up one of the forks of the Illinois River to the Out n About Treesort. Yes, tonight we are literally staying in treehouses. (Caution: Their website is truly horrible, but it might help you get the idea anyway). We're also only about 10-15 miles from the California border.
We'll reserve final judgement until a later post, but the treehouses themselves are quite nice, certainly unique. Parts of the grounds could do for some sprucing up, though. (And Katie is happy to be sleeping in an actual bed tonight and not on the ground in a tent).
Tomorrow, after the complimetary breakfast (real breakfast, not "continental"), it's off to the Oregon Caves!
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Maria bought some car games for the kids. 3,500 miles later still not opened. DS, movies, books on tape (digital books?) totally replaced that activity.
ReplyDeleteTotally with you on the electronics swapping. There are 3 12v plugs in the Passat, but we had to take advantage of real plugs whenever we could.