Toad Trip 2013: Roseburg to Wells, Nevada

9/20 to 9/23:  682 miles over two days and camped along the way at:

• Goose Lake State Park, Lakeview, Oregon on Sunday, 9/22
• Angel Lake RV Park, Wells, Nevada on Monday, 9/23

Goose Lake State Park, on the Oregon - California border, Lakeview, Oregon

Angel Lake RV Park, Wells, Nevada

Well, its time to make the swing toward home.  My girlfriend, Judy, flew into Eugene, Oregon on Friday the 20th to meet and drive back to Gouverneur with me.  Coincidently, my sister in law and brother in law, Karen and Alfie Bigarel are traveling in the west also and we converged at Cory's house for a couple of days.  What a great time we had!!  We had planned to go to the coast to see the ocean and devour seafood.  However, heavy rain changed our plans, so we went wine tasting instead.

On Sunday Judy and I started the drive east by making a visit to Crater Lake National Park.  The weather gods were not working with us. At the crater rim, the temperature was 33 degrees, and the lake was completely fogged in.  We couldn't see anything.  What a bummer.  I have seen Crater Lake several times, but Judy never has.  Anyway, I have never experienced the fog at Crater Lake, so that was a first.  :-)

Fog!!!  There is supposed to be beautiful blue water there somewhere.

So, instead of touring some of the Crater Lake viewpoints, we headed east.  We drove through southeastern Oregon on Rt. 140, a beautiful two lane highway.  The High Desert region is start and stunning.  We saw thousands of beef cattle grazing in the valleys.

Cattle grazing in the Oregon High Desert.

We ended the day at Goose Lake State Park.

Monday, we continued our drive to the southeast, spending most of the day in Nevada.  We started the drive on Rt. 140 again and ended the day in Wells, Nevada on Interstate 80.

Goose Lake State Park to Wells, Nevada.

This drive was through total isolation and desert.  The region is often referred to as Cowboy Country.  As one website explained it, "One of the best things about Nevada’s Cowboy Country is that it is one of the few remaining places in the continental United States where a traveler can experience the sensation of being on a true frontier."  After driving it, we concur.  That is so true!!

Wild horses.

We ended the day at Angel Lake RV Park in Wells, Nevada.  Judy and I went out for dinner at Bellas Restaurant, based on the reviews from Tripadvisor.com.  We ordered their speciality, chicken fried steak.  Several reviewers suggested ordering just one serving and splitting it between two people since the portions were so large.  We did that, and it was a good thing.  We were both stuffed after consuming the "half" servings.

Tuesday, its on to Moab, Utah...................