Happy Bench Monday from Harris Beach! We're BACK!! (+6 insets)

(+6 insets)

We've Finally Arrived Back at Our House!
We're home from our RV trip, safe and sound! It's been nearly two weeks since we arrived, and boy, does it take time to readjust to living in a house that doesn't move. I know that my silence has caused some concern and I'm sorry for not posting sooner...all is well!

Our 2021 Adventure--Six Months on the Road!
This trip was our longest yet--we left on April 6, returned for 18 days at the beginning of July, and then headed out until October 19. We rolled the dice when we made all of our reservations and stayed out as late as we thought the weather would hold. Somehow we got incredibly lucky and managed to get a pair of six's! Literally the very next day a storm rolled through our area, making the gravel road up to our house soggy and the area we maneuver the truck and trailer totally muddy with sticky clay. Since then it's been stormy off and on and we can't stop giggling at our good fortune.

WHAT A TRIP! WHAT ADVENTURES! What an enormous glut of photos!! 321 GIGS of photos, AHHHHHHHHH!!! How in the world did I amass THAT MUCH data?!! Suffice to say, I took a lot of pictures, WOW! Honestly, until I looked just now, I really had no idea the glut of images I'd gathered throughout our trip. Well, I think I did a good job documenting each place we visited.

The entire trip took us to 20 destinations in Oregon--some of which we would visit twice during our trip. Once again we didn't get to the far-eastern areas of the state, but visited many spots in central and coastal Oregon we'd not seen before.

We started our trip with a new truck to go with our year-old trailer. We had to admit that our previous truck wasn't quite up to the task of pulling our rig up sizable grades and that meant biting the bullet and moving up to a newer, more powerful Chevy. It did the trick and in so doing, completely removed the anxiety and worry we'd had with our excellent, but not powerful-enough Dodge.

We also got fully-vaccinated during the trip, what a relief! The second wave of the virus, thanks to Delta, caused enough concern that we returned to wearing masks when out in public areas, but all-in-all, we are so much more confident and less anxious than we were.

This trip was such an incredible experience and we are so fortunate that we could manage to go for such a long time! I know I won't be able to process all of the cool things I photographed but I will do my best to share the gist of our adventures as time goes on!

Today's Pictures
Seeing as it's Monday, why don't we start with a bench picture for Happy Bench Monday? I'm only going to post a couple of pictures today but I've got to start somewhere so here we go! :)

This inviting bench can be found along the Sunset Trail at Harris Beach State Park, and I can testify that it is, indeed, a great spot to sit as the sun sinks into the sea off the rugged coast of coastal Oregon. By the way, if you'd like to see some other pictures I took, posted back when we started our trip, you can visit either of thes links:
Sunset at Harris Beach State Park
Rock-Strewn North Harris Beach

Today's Insets
Harris Beach State Park is hugely popular for a good reason. There are incredible beach walks adorned by massive boulders and tidal pools, lovely trails that take you from one end of the park to the other, and there's even a little butte to hike up to for an unbelievable view far up and down the coast. I'm including a couple of beach pictures to enjoy, but I'm also including map graphics that show the stops we made on both of our trips this year.

Thanks for your visits and the letters you wrote to make sure I was ok! I'm going to visit everyone as time permits…I've missed you all so much! I hope you've all been ok while we've been out of touch!

Explored on 11/1/21; highest placement #4.