D-day minus 1

Tomorrow morning, we pull away from home and start our Alaska adventure. We're frantically running around doing all the last-minute (and forgotten-until-now) stuff. We still have 2½ weeks until our caravan rendez-vous in Ephrata, Washington. However, we'll be busy until then.

First we stop in the Bay area to visit friends. We'll camp at Anthony Chabot Regional Park in Oakland (actually closer to Castro Valley) Monday and Tuesday. Then we head for Oregon - Wednesday night at the Antlers Forest Service Campground by Lake Shasta, Thursday night somewhere in southern Oregon then we meet friends near Salem, OR for a Memorial Day weekend campout at Silver Falls State Park.

The last week in May will be spent at the Monaco Coach Corp. Service Center in Harrisburg, OR. They will do some warranty work on the coach while we camp in "Camp Monaco", the campground on the premises.

June 1, we're headed for the Columbia Gorge and a fun time viewing the waterfalls that feed the Columbia River. (In ~1985, I took my mother, sister and niece on a trip through the Northwest. My niece and I especially remember climbing the cliff and walking BEHIND the waterfall at Multnomah Falls. I don't know if that's still possible but I look forward to visiting that site again.) We'll go as far east as Hood River then turn north into central Washington to arrive in Ephrata on June 5. Then, the adventure really begins!