DIRTY HIPPIES CAMPING IN OREGON!!!

October 27th and 28th

Nights for free> 2 out of 2

Hotsprings> our 2nd and best!!!

# of showers: NONE...DIRTY HIPPIES

animal counter: racoons ( way too many and sacry ones). Elks

map of the trip so far

Bling Bling!!! finally "hit up" the bank

Leaving Seattle we get some tips to go sleep near a natural Hot Springs near the coast of Oregon. So we start driving South. We drive, drive and drive..we pass Portland and drive some more...by the time we arrive nearby the Camp-ground, the night is dark like hell, foggy and in small roads with no one else...pretty freaky!!Finally we find a sign that says the name of the Camp-ground we were looking for!! Miracle!! we make it to the tents places and ii is late night, in between all kind of crazy animals while it rains....by this time all my excitement of my first night camping in the EEUU is gone...so we decide to not leave the car to sleep...we only left the car to go 1 meter away for liquid necessities...so we spend the first night of camping not camping!!! Between the fear of getting eaten  by a Cougar or a Bear, getting soaked in water and put the tent over the river due to the low visibility; the back of the car seemed even comfy.

The next morning was another story..we couldn't stand for more than 5 minutes without having backache, and our neck muscle mobility reduced by a 90%. So while we put everything together again to the back ( cause with all the stuff on the pilot seat it is IMPOSSIBLE to drive) the boss of a construction crew comes to visit us: The camp ground wasn't open to camping because is was under going maintenance works,OUPS!!But we don't have to pay for the night!!YUHU!!!

We start our way to find some hot-springs where to clean ourselves...dirty,dirty,dirty..we find them..THE BEST SPRINGS I'VE EVER BEEN ( together with the ones in Taiwan). In the middle of the woods a native Indian ( she wasn't wearing all the feathers and leather loincloth ( aka taparrabos for my Spanish fellows)  as I expected..."What a disappointment") she gives as directions for the hike to reach the Springs...when we arrive..." OHHHH"( exclamation of amusement) we find a 5 pools hot springs with water at 43.3o Celsius on the first pool!  with barely no one in them ( 2 guys and the girl who was cleaning them). And they have been cleaned ( they clean them very 2 weeks) just before we get in. SO I guess after us they should clean them again since we were kind of dirty hippies...Poor people..

After the wonderful time at the Hot Springs it was hard to push ourselves to leave for the coast. We headed to Florence where we got our second night of free camping. Tip, arrive at dark and leave early morning...like VERY early morning (we got up at 6am). Our evening though was a little bit more eventful as we weren't alone and got to make "friends"....we start easting our speciality of pre-maid  Maccarroni'n'Cheese by the time big yellow eyes appear surrounding us!!!"aRGHHHH" CRISIS!!!!

David shown the flash light to discover tons of Racoons aproaching to us ( our meal). So the Chasing fight starts with me making noises with metal stuff  and other specialise techniques!!! 

Part of the drive

Next morning we got up before the break of dawn and made our get-away south towards the promise land of california via the 101 along the Oregon Coast! Amazing views, and tons of Elk to be seen. 

ps: guess how much gas was here (cheapest of the whole trip so far)...73 cents a litre (2.79 per gallon) What up! Gas prices are crazy here. You'll drive through a town and see about 7 different prices ranging a good 20 cents difference.

Elks!!

Sunset on the Oregon Coast