Ashland Vacations, Ashland Vacation Reviews, Tourism Guide

After selling my house, quiting my public school teaching job and buying an RV, I am now on a journey west...towards the setting sun...closer to my natural spirit!!! :)

Did you know that the locals from just north of Shasta Lake, all the way up to about Roseburg, Oregon, consider their area an unofficial state?

My sister was DONE (overdone) with living in El Paso, Texas! She invited me to fly down from Portland, pack up the Ford Focus with some light boxes, the two of us, two kids, and "Bunny" the hampster. We left El Paso, and set out across the southern deserts of New Mexico, Arizona, and California on I-10. Then, headed north on I-5 through California's Central Valley, the southern Oregon Siskiyous, and the Willamette Valley to Portland. (Tracie and the kids continued on to settle in Seattle.)

I visited Oregon in the summer of 2007. It was a quick last minute spontaneous trip, and wish that I could go and explore Oregon in more depth. We first visited Ashland for the Shakespeare festival, and then took a few scenic bypasses to Crater lake and there were some waterfalls along the way.