Saturday, August 29: Once again we had rain through the night that quit about the time we woke up. We took more time hitting the road today and took things much slower all day. We drove south across the state border into California as far as Crescent City and stopped by the Redwood National Park Visitor Center. We decided against driving any further south but did take a nice walk along the waterfront to get one last view of the Pacific Ocean.

We weren’t sure if we would see much of the redwood trees but were pleasantly surprised when the highway cut through the Jedediah Smith State Park and we were able to stop at a day use area and walk through some of the amazing redwoods.

The road started off very narrow and curvy and I was thankful that my excellent driver was at the wheel! Some of the time I just chose not to look out my window :-) Our lunch stop was at a turnout alongside the Smith River.

Once we crossed back into Oregon the highway widened and flattened out so we were able to make better time the rest of the way to our destination for the night - Grants Pass, Oregon.

It was a good location for a catch up stop - we found the Super Walmart to stock up on groceries and the campground had a nice laundry room to deal with the overflowing dirty clothes hamper. Just up the road from the campground was a Black Bear Diner that we could walk to and treat ourselves to a dinner out.