Armyofone's Vacation Thread-Pacific Coast Highway, Wa/or/nor-Cal-*

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Hello everybody, just thought I would pop in to share some of the pictures from my recent

excusrsion through WA, OR, and NorCal. We wanted to go to San-Franscisco, but it would have

cost a little more money than we were comfortable with, so we decided to nix it and stick to the Pacific

Coast Hwy, Redwood Forest, the Lava Beds, Klamath upper and lower Wildlife Refuges, and Crater Lake.

A small tidbit of info that many people may not know, if you want to visit state/national parks,

and you happen to go in the winter, the rates and fees are often highly discounted, or even free.

My wife and I visited 4 national parks, and all but 1 was free of charge in the winter months.

The pix are in order of the trip, and are numbered. If you would like High-Res photos, PM me

with your email and I would be happy to oblige. :) I apologize in advance for the excessive photos

of my truck, but this post is cross posted on the Ram Forum. It took me about 5 hours to resize/upload and

get this post coded, so I really only wanted to do it once...and being that we are all enthusiasts here,

I figured noone would mind anyway.

Pacific Coast Hwy/Oregon and CA coast:

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The Redwood Forest

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^Your's Truly...Even though I dont drive a Hybrid, I can still be a tree hugger. LOL.

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^Me and the mutt. Marv picked up 3 ticks in the woods that day. Luckily I found and extracted them before they bit.

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Scenery between Fortuna, CA and Redding, CA:

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^Marv wanted some Dr. Pepper from Subway.

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This next set of pix were taken at a small tourist trap called "Tour Thru Tree. You pay $5 and drive your

vehicle through a redwood tree. Its very harrowing in a vehicle the size of the Ram. Of course, I had to have a go :D :

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^What? I was good...I had a half an inch on each side :D .

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^Mt. Shasta

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Klamath National Wildlife Refuge--Klamath Falls, OR

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[lenore]

Hey Josh, glad you are enjoying the trip...I love your picture of that coastal highway bridge...Those were all constructed during the WPA days of the Great depression, they are so unique and classics in themselves.

Hope you are enjoying yourself....Thank you for your service.

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The Lava Beds National Park, Tulelake, CA:

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^That is an ACTUAL volcano's insides....creepy huh?

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Crater Lake National Park-Oregon:

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^These 3 pix were taken on the way to Crater Lake from Klamath Falls, Oregon.

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Crater Lake gets ALOT of snow every year...its early in the snow season yet and they already have

12+feet at the summit (~6500ft).

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^They had to clear 4 feet of overnight fresh snow and 6 avalanche's from the road to the summit.

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^The view of the Klamath Valley from 6,400 feet.

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^Fuel Economy on the way down the mountain :D

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^The view at the bottom :)

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^The ACTUAL average MPG of the truck on the hwy. :D

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The Journey Home-Southcentral Oregon:

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On the way home, we stopped at a place in Winston Oregon, called Wildlife Safari. It was pretty incredible.

I will let the pix tell the story, but its basically a drive-thru exotic zoo.

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These stupid Emu's were horrible. There was one that would not stop harassing people in their cars

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^He's comin for us...

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^Heh, Its a Ram. :P

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^That is a black swan, a very rare bird from what I gather.

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And lastly, when we left Joe's Crab Shack in Portland last night around 930pm, I looked down and

saw this:

Almost caught the rollover...damn. LOL.

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Sorry there are so many pix of my truck, but this is cross posted on RamforumZ.com and it took 5 hrs to upload and post...NOT doing it 2x lol...copy and paste FTW!

[dcfish]

Josh, This is fantastic, Just like taking the trip myself :) This is just what I like with my morning coffee