Jedediah Smith State Park: Our first night

N41*47”.864’ W124*.05”.193’ A long day of driving, 462 miles. We think this is the largest number of miles we will drive in one day during the whole trip, but felt it was worth it to get outside our normal travel range. All day was on Interstate 5, except for the last 75 miles between Grants Pass, OR and Crescent City, CA which was traveled in the dark, so nothing really remarkable, other than being reminded how beautiful southern Oregon is – it defines the word verdant. We arrived at our first night’s destination around 7PM. By 8PM we had everything set up and had cooked our first dinner. Tonight a chance to begin to fine tune our packing and methods – hopefully the first step in developing some routines that will make the mechanics of living in the Chalet easy. Our plan for tomorrow morning is to get in a run on a trail here in the park, grab a quick shower, then join the “Camp Host” in watching Barack Obama’s inauguration speech! Cathryn drew the assignment of asking the host when we pulled in “Do you know the closest place where we could watch the inauguration?” Of course devious Bob had already suspected the hosts might have satellite TV, and suggested Cathryn could schmooze them into letting us watch with them. Bob was right, and Cathryn, as usual was successful in making a connection.