This morning, we gathered up our chairs, antennas and bird feeders and loaded them into the trailer for travel. Since Thousand Trails South Jetty has almost no sewer hookups for it’s guests, we got to pull into another unoccupied campsite to dump our tanks because their regular dump station is allegedly being upgraded. It looked like the upgrade, currently, is some faded yellow construction caution tape gaily strung between the former water piping in the contemplated dump station demolition. No evidence of work or progress on this facility was evident during our stay at this sewer-piping challenged campground.

We turned north on US-101 and took a gorgeous drive up the coast through Florence, Yachats, Newport and Lincoln City before turning off for a short drive to Pacific City. Here, we found another Thousand Trails facility with many campsites but few with sewer, 50 amp electrical or decent roads. We took a trying drive through the park, including one turnaround with barely sufficient space and much steering wheel wrenching before settling on space F5 which we were able to slither backwards into with only a moderate amount of cursing. There is naturally no sewer in this site. The satellite antenna works very well but there is no data service, WiFi or phone. The last time we visited this campground, in 2014, I clumsily rubbed the rear right corner of our trailer against one of their dump station bollards protecting some gravel and making exit difficult. This left a small yellow badge of incompetance on the rear skirt that took a long time to rub out. I hope to avoid a repeat performance when we leave this year.