Had an early breakfast and then set out for the Yellowstone Falls National Park. For some reason I have always wanted to see the park and we had a couple of hours drive to get there.Surprisingly for a Saturday morning there was little traffic as we headed north, passing through numerous towns, including Rigby, where apparently TV was invented! Initially we saw mostly farm land - more potatoes etc. - and then it was into forest country with the road gradually risi...

Grabbed a coffee at a Starbucks and after a quick look around this little town we hit I84E. After passing through some very uninspiring country we suddenly drove into a magnificent belt of agriculture - cereal crops, hay crops, lucerne, fruit and veggies - you name it, it was grown on an enormous scale! There were machinery dealers all along the freeway, selling big tractors, trucks and other implements, a very prosperous area. Just before Ontario we put our watc...

Left Eugene this morning at about 9.30am ready for a long drive! We followed I5N north as far as Portland passing some beautiful farming country, lots of hay production and also fruits and nuts. There were also many light industrial areas, one of which was Marathon Coaches which produces motor home and fifth wheelers! There were literally acres of new trailers and motor homes waiting for distribution! Jasmine and Mumsie had blonde moments when they remarked about...

Set off from Eureka this morning in somewhat cloudy and foggy conditions which continued as we headed up I105N, we stopped at Arcata for a coffee then followed the beautiful coastal drive North through more of the amazing redwood forests. We stopped at a funny little place that had a cable car heading up into the forest - lots of Yank crap stuff at the roadside including huge life like figures of Paul Banyan and his blue ox??????????? No idea what that was abou...

Had our now customary free brekkie at the motel and then took a drive into Santa Cruz to have a look at the place and hopefully see a better side of it!But it was just as crappy downtown - everything a bit grotty - and when parked by the waterfront it got a lot worse! Dozens of layabouts sleeping rough, many empty buildings and generally a slummy area. We walked past a long stretch of fun parks and food stalls, past a strip of freshly raked sand that had volley b...