Since all the asset division is over for Peg’s sisters, we hooked Charlotte up to the Barbarian Invader and departed the Coos Bay area headed north. Bastendorff Beach has no sewer system available at the individual campsites but they do have a dump station where we stopped before leaving the park. The functions performed there may be classified as one of the unpleasant tasks with continuous traveling but I really don’t mind it much. It sure lightens the load prior to highway travel.
We moseyed through Coos Bay and North Bend at a maximum speed of 30 miles per hour, the highest posted limit. The roads in town are severely pockmarked with giant potholes and there are ample supplies of areas with construction barricades and signage but no visible work in progress. It is remarkable so much road surface can be fouled up and so much repair work allegedly in progress yet no real progress seems to occur.
We finally made it to 101 and turned north for a nice, leisurely 50 mile drive from Coos Bay to the South Jetty RV Resort, a TT facility in Florence, OR, where we get to stay for free. We must have arrived at the proper time because we got the last available space with a sewer hookup in addition to power and water. A couple drivers hauling trailers came by right after we pulled in and gave us miserable glares as they realized they would be stopping by the dump station prior to departure.
Our site is in a thick stand of cedar, fir and spruce forest adjoining the Oregon Dunes which run about 50 miles all the way back to Coos Bay. There is a creek running past our camp spot. It is nice here.