The above picture is the campground we stayed at in Florence, Jessie Honeyman State Park. It was extremely cozy, you can see how each site was surrounded by trees and huge rhododendron bushes, so it was almost as if you were all alone in the park.

As we drove south of Florence we stopped in Reedsport to see some Roosevelt Elk. They are much larger than "our" elk. There is a large no hunting area at reedsport, and the elk have congregated there for years. It was fun to be able to watch them, they weren't jumpy or nervous at all. There were 15 or 20 bulls, and about twice that many cows and calves.

Shortly after that it started to rain...and rain and rain and rain. We pulled into Coos Bay, there was an RV Park right at the Mill Casino (how fortuitous!) with a laundromat and phenomenal showers and bathrooms. We hooked up our little TV, did some laundry, had a long, hot shower and spent the evening at the Casino, where, as a matter of fact, Steven won $450.00 and I won $200.00. We had dinner at the restaurant there, I had a Sort of seafood Wellington, crab, scallops and shrimp wrapped in a crepe and covered with a sauce, and Steven had a Captain's Plate, which was all kinds of deep fried sea food. The rain was still thundering down when we went to sleep in our cozy little home on wheels.