A Week In Portland, Oregon

Sorry , no spectacular scenery this week! We’ve been using our museum passes to see everything. Most of the museums don’t allow photography.     The history museum had a lot of the costumes from the Broadway production of The Lion King which were amazing.
This is a great city to visit because almost everything is within walking distance of the down town area.

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12 Years and 300,000 Miles !

 Our little camper just keeps going ! From Alaska to Key West and from Newfoundland to San Diego. Every so often we think about getting a new one but we can’t seem to find one that can take us all of the places that this one has so we’ll keep the duct tape and caulking handy for the next 100,000. We’ve been meandering up through central Oregon. This is where we camped Friday night – beautiful and free on national forest land.
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Crater Lake National Park , Oregon

    Mount Manzana erupted 7,700 years ago ,then the volcano collapsed forming the depression which filled with water. It’s 1,943′ deep. All the water comes from snow melt and there’s no outlet except for percolation. And it really does look this blue!


 
Strange snow and dirt formation.          
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Lassen Volcano National Park

  The firefighters are getting the California fires under control – only 367 compared to almost 1500 a few days ago. We drove through some heavy  smoke on the way to Lassen but we haven’t seen any of the fires.
The scenery  in Lassen Volcano park varies greatly. We started in the south where there are some hot areas but little sign off the volcanic activity. The northern end has many more signs of the eruptions which lasted for three years from 1914 to 1917 and also a very rocky area from a huge landside which happened in the 1640s.
This photograph was taken on May 22,1915 during the largest eruption. It could be seen fifty miles away.

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