Recent content by WildPlum

It is tough to get a space in the Oregon state parks without reservation in high season - I was just online today to reserve 2 spots in Bullard's Beach at Bandon in mid July. Since my time frame includes a weekend, there were about 15 spots (out of about 175) left. Some of them are not suited...

The dealer that we finally ended up buying from had refused to sell my old neighbor the trailer he wanted because the salesman knew his Toyota Tacoma truck would not be able to tow it safely, so I already knew they had some integrity.... [My neighbor refused to listen, went to one of the big RV...

I forget which one of these I have, but it is VERY bright: https://smile.amazon.com/Rechargeable-Portable-Brightness-Included-Lighting/dp/B017N6Q0Z2/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1476994508&sr=8-2&keywords=dual+head+music+light The trick is balancing it on my little light fold-up music stand...

I have a Martin LXM in a gig bag as a travel guitar - it's smaller (smaller than a parlor), made of laminate but still sounds pretty good. It can take fairly serious changes in temp and humidity and doesn't seem to care. To be honest, I'd just as soon it DIDN'T say "Martin" on the headstock or...

A lot of people complain about Oregon's fairly strict urban growth boundaries, which were enacted to protect large farms from being subdivided and paved over, saying that it drives up housing prices. Which it does, to some extent, by keeping the cost of land fairly high and by keeping large...

It is pretty common in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Utah, Colorado, parts of Nevada (not Vegas) and parts of Arizona to hear grumbling about Californians. Most of those states (through about the mid-90s) had reasonable real estate prices (relative to income) that were rising slowly but not...

Lol, I live a couple of blocks from the roundabout on Siskiyou. Medford roads are generally in good repair, except for some heavy use arterials. Also, in my older part of town, there are some very broken roads that are just a step up from gravel. Not all of Oregon is that way though, especially...

That is debatable. When I lived near the south entrance to Crater Lake, I'd take Hwy 97 down from Klamath Falls to I-5 at Weed - you could pretty much tell the second you crossed the state line, out of Oregon, by the improvement in the roads and the upkeep in snow plowing. Although it is pretty...

We knew we wanted an RV to spend time camping, sometimes in state/county parks, sometimes in national parks. Things like KOAs and RV parks would be overnighters more than stays. We weren't really interested in living in it for longer than a couple weeks at a time. We knew we were unlikely to go...

Just purchased a 2017 Keystone Hideout 21FQ (smallest trailer I could find with a full walk-around queen, no slide and a large u-shaped rear dinette). Had a 17' Wolf Pup for about 5 years, prior to that a tent trailer, prior to that multiple decades of tent camping. Had to upgrade the tow...