Off the Beaten Path...

Hi all!

Yep! We are in the lovely state of Oregon until May. We are at a beautiful state park called

And they call it this because it is near the Rogue River, not because of any pirates. However, there was gold mining going on around the 1860s or so.

But it is a beautiful river. We are in a valley, so guess what's around us? Yup! Mountains!

And wouldn't you know it, some of them are still covered with this stuff:

But we get fog in the morning and sunny days. We are expecting more rain tomorrow, and then some sun after that. Oregonians are fine with that; they say it helps grow their beautiful trees. I'm all right with that. It truly is magnificent here.

Today we went off the beaten path to an old town that is now an historic site called Golden. You drive to the site, there are no markers to tell you what things are, you kind of have to know them by the state they are in/shape of them, etc. These were the only placards that told you about the site.

The lady who brought her older daughter said it was on some paranormal show and the church is haunted. Hmm, yeah yeah. Anyway, this is what we saw in broad daylight.

 School

They used this building for a second church also

General Store

bathroom with air conditioning

Church

It was a nice little visit, took all of about 15 minutes to stop, look, and take pictures. On the way back to the campsite, we took an exit to a covered bridge and a covered wagon museum. The museum was closed, but the bridge was open.

They call it Grave Creek because a girl died of typhoid fever and there were battles fought near here. Here is the placard. I hope you can read it.

So for being "off the beaten path," we had a great visit here. Y'all come back!😉