As we were leaving the Dry Camping area at the Mill Casino in North Bay, OR we found out where all of the logs were going. We had seen load after load on the highway for a long ways.

They were being taken to North Bend to be put on a ship and taken somewhere across the Pacific Ocean. We saw one ship that looked like a container ship that was being loaded with logs higher than the sides and they were still loading it. I am not sure how many it can hold, but a lot. Maybe more than a thousand truckloads, who knows.

We had seen areas that had been clear cut for several days and apparently many of them are being shipped overseas. We did see several processing mills that were making plywood and chip board, etc. but why are they sending them abroad?


As we worked our way north to Lincoln City we followed the ocean quite closely, many times just over the edge of the water high on the rocks where we could see the huge waves coming in and crashing against the rocks or breaking over the sandy beaches. It is difficult to believe that it does this all day, all night, every day for ever. Where does it all come from and why? Just some of the mysteries of the universe that the common man does not understand.

We are in Lincoln City at the Devils Lake RV park. We stopped at the Chinook Winds Casino and they did not have any RV parking as they were getting ready for a huge car show this week end and were using the RV areas for the car show. We were sent up the road to the Chinook RV Park but they were full and they suggested Devils Lake. We called and they had one space we could have for two nights. We will leave the motor home here tomorrow and take the van to the Tillamook Creamery for a tour and some of their ice cream that is so popular in the area.

It will probably be too late tomorrow when we get back to go anywhere, so we will just wait until Saturday and head for McMinnville, OR.

Our photos are of the ocean and some of 101 and a house set high on a hill overlooking the ocean. How tough would it be to have to live in a place like that?