Grants Pass OR

Well, it's been a fun stay in Grant's Pass... actually, we're closer to a little town called Merlin... but the road beckons, and it's time to push south. The streets here are a lot easier to navigate than in Vancouver. In the area we were camped, were a NW 99 St., NW 99 Ave. and NW Highway 99. And to top it all off, there was much road work going on, so the GPS kept getting confused (as did I) with all the major detours.

On the drive down, we stopped at many rest areas, and picked up a lot of caches in them. We've seen many fun caches around the Merlin/Grants Pass area, too. One of them took us to an old covered bridge.

Another brought us to a house with a most unusual decorating scheme in the yard. The cache was called Scentimental Yard Art Cache, and to log it I had to count the... uh... unique planters... (you may have to enlarge this shot to see the art)

Found a great little deserted park in which to eat lunch today. The only other people were a couple of '60s refugees wearing Peruvian hats and driving a red and white VW microbus who were playing disc golf. Looks interesting, though, I'll have to give it a go... The park was a riot of yellow, from dozens of what looked like large leaf maple trees with the wrong colour leaves. It's only fair, I suppose, if we have more American (bald) eagles than they do, that they get to have some of our trees.

Tomorrow we hit our first California stop... Sacramento. It'll be the longest drive so far, so we probably won't have time for too many rest stop caches.