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<\/a>Segment 4 - 16 Nights and 1,147 Miles<\/p><\/div>\n
Stops along the way:<\/p>\n
B – Lone Pine, CA (247 miles, 2 nights). There aren’t a lot of RV parks in Death Valley, so we will be staying in one just to the west… if we survive.\u00a0 I think there is a possibility that we will spend just one night here because, really, how much can there be to keep our interest in a town named Lone Pine?\u00a0 It does have a movie museum which contains memorabilia of the 300-odd movies that they claim were made in the vicinity.\u00a0 Not The Last Picture Show<\/em>, though – that was Texas.<\/p>\n C – Reno, NV (267 miles, 2 nights).\u00a0 I have never been to Reno as my divorce was executed in Massachusetts.\u00a0 But after 4,000 miles of togetherness, this will be a chance for Jett to dump me.<\/p>\n D – Klamath Falls, OR (252 miles, 2 nights).\u00a0 I knew next to nothing about Klamath Falls before I Googled it.\u00a0 Apparently there are no falls, so it is unclear where it got its name.\u00a0 It is, however, the site of the only deaths by a Japanese bomb in WWII – a woman and 5 children on a church outing.\u00a0 The bomb was dropped from a balloon.<\/p>\n E – Fairview, OR (333 miles, 3 nights).\u00a0 This will be 3 nights near Portland.\u00a0 One day will, I think, be spent in Portland, a city that I have visited several times and really like.\u00a0 Jett has never been there.\u00a0 The other day will likely be invested in a day trip to Mt. St. Helens. Hopefully it will remain relatively inactive while we are there.\u00a0 I would hate to travel that far just to have it all end in an unexpected pyroclastic flow.<\/p>\n The segment ends with a week in Tillamook.\u00a0 Besides being guests of honor at Thanksgiving dinner at my sister’s house, we will also visit the Tillamook Cheese Factory and will probably take some easy hikes along the beautiful Oregon coast.\u00a0 If my brother-in-law holds true to form, I will also be spending a day fishing, crabbing or harvesting mussels.\u00a0 Probably a trip to an Indian casino, too.\u00a0 But mostly just hanging out with family and, as Jett’s mother would say, “putting pins back in our box.”<\/p>\n Tillamook gets a lot of rain. A L.O.T.\u00a0 I suspect that it will be raining more often than not while we are there.\u00a0 As Jett is not a big fan of gloomy weather (nor am I, really), she will probably be very happy to leave.\u00a0 Our schedule has us departing on November 28, heading south to brighter skies and warmer temperatures.\u00a0 And, yes, we will go to Disneyland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This segment gets us from Las Vegas to the most important destination on the trip: Tillamook, OR, for Thanksgiving. I promised my sister and my mother that we would be there and this segment delivers on that promise. It is a relatively short segment – 1,147 miles – and, counting the week in Tillamook, encompasses … Continue reading