Today we have a short haul to Coos Bay Oregon with a delivery also in Rainier, Oregon on the way. The trailer was loaded for us on Monday. We arrived at the truck last night and got reasonable settled before falling asleep exhausted. After all, we started Monday morning in Spokane, drove to Kettle Falls, unloaded a 6x12 trailer and then drove back to Tacoma.
Anyway, back to today. We are taking 20 “totes” – big plastic containers of environmentally friendly wood stain. Each tote weighs about 2500 lbs. We are excited to be going to the Oregon coast- will be a nice break from all the interstate driving we have been doing. We still ended up traveling I-5 all the way to Eugene and then we took the very scenic- and a little scary for a big truck- route 126 to Florence. I took lots of pictures of the road- with its tight curves and overhanging tree branches forming a canopy at times.
From Florence to Coos Bay we were traveling highway 101- also very scenic. A highlight was seeing how the massive dunes of nearly white sand are overrunning the forests in places. Since today was a very windy day we could easily see the forces that are blowing the sand further onshore.
After our delivery, we drove back as far as Reedsport and found a turnout on the highway to park the truck. We have a view overlooking the Umpqua River— priceless.
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