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Introducing our East Coast Adventure

Hey does this site still work? Yes, it’s been pretty quiet around here lately, but that is all about to change. After working every day but one since December it is time to get back on the road and on to new adventures.

We figured since we are here on the right side of the country why not give it a look around? We intended to do that when we moved to Vermont, however, it has ended up that we have only had 5 nights in the camper since last August, where we expected to have many dozens based on the lies we were told about the job we took. That is totally unacceptable and is changing starting today! What was the point of coming here anyway? Not to work 100 hour weeks, that’s for sure. Time is our most valuable asset, we have an unknown but finite amount of it, and we want to use the rest of ours wisely. Goodbye Woodshed, hello open road.

We are headed south out of Vermont on a grand road trip we are calling the East Coast Adventure. Now don’t get me wrong, Vermont is great, but if you aren’t able to get out and about what’s the doggone point? So here we go.

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Malheur, 2019

Labor day had come and gone. Summer fishing adventures in the high Cascades are winding down and we are moving on to our list of fall destinations. Counting the possible destinations and the number of weekends available until Thanksgiving rolls around, it seems the numbers don’t quite match up. But, we’ll get out to see what we can see and maybe have a list left over for next year. The first stop turned out to be a trip to the high country of the Malheur National Forest, and the headwaters of the Malheur river.

This is familiar country to me but I haven’t visited in a long time. I used to hunt deer and elk here regularly but with how difficult it is to draw a tag now in Oregon and how lousy the hunting is I’ve concentrated more on fishing the last several years. It was good to be back and see the country again. With the days getting shorter we arrived in the dark on Friday night. First up on Saturday was a hike in the Strawberries to High Lake.

High Lake, down in the bowl, almost hidden by the ridge
High Lake
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Wildflowers and Wine, Southwest Oregon, 2019

Spring seems slow in coming this year. Maybe the coldest March on record in the past 100 years has something to do with it. Or the refusal of the big pile of snow in the front yard to give in and melt. We started looking around the state for somewhere a bit warmer. Maybe some wildflowers? Even the wildflowers in the Columbia Gorge seem slow to come this year. So we opted for a location we don’t normally frequent, southwest Oregon.

The sun was out and we enjoyed a couple days in the Applegate Valley. Up till now most of the time I’ve spent in the Applegate has been on wildfires. Blazing hot, smoky and steep terrain full of poison oak might be the picture I would paint. But that hot weather also allows for a variety of wine grapes to be grown you don’t find in other parts of Oregon. We visited a few spots for a sample or two.

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