So on July 23rd with the weather finally getting into a good routine of being good weather, the OLD VOLKS and FOLKS did their bi-weekly trip and this time it was the Oregon Caves and we headed out about 9 am with sunshine and blue skies!!
This run had quite a few people going as it was not an over nighter and it was quite an adventure. If you can imagine trying to keep about 20 or so Volkswagen's in a line when all of them are several years old and not back traffic up while this is happening. It is actually quite a feat and quite a parade at the same time since every where they seemed to go people would actually stop and look. Whenever they go to the coast or come back from the coast or going to the caves they always stop at a place in Cave Junction (look it up on the map or use map quest) called Taylor's Restaurant which is actually a meat market,deli,wine seller. The meat is all local, the deli is superb actually serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner and the wines are all from the local wineries so it is sort of a ALL IN ONE for the locals and the travelers.
Well when the O V & F stop there it sort of turns into a small car show and every one starts remembering when they drove a VW?? So after a short break it was back in the parade and off to the caves. The caves are about 19 miles from Cave Junction. I am not sure how long the caves have been open, but it is a reallllllllly loooooong time!!! You can GOOGLE Oregon Caves National National Monument and find out every thing you ever wanted to know. I can tell you that the tour takes about 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 hours and the temperature inside the caves is 44 degrees!!!!! Wanna guess why yours truly did not go????
The drive is fun and the road has a lot of curves similar to Bear Camp Road, (please refer to Over the River and Through the Woods). Unfortunately due to the amount of traffic trying to straighten that road out would be an exercise in futility... or maybe just plain SUICIDAL. So I was the third car in this parade going both ways I maintained a certain amount of decorum so as not to make everybody mad.
However!!! once we got into Cave Junction and headed for the Picnic area at Lake Selmac all bets were off because then Larry took off towing his trailer and I was right behind him. Everybody knew about where we were going so it became a race to get there!!!! Lake Selmac is situated off of Highway 199 which is the highway to the coast. I suppose it is named after the closest town which would be Selma??? anyway all arrived at the appointed location with enough food to feed several more people than was there!!!!!!!
So after a most relaxing, NO WHITE KNUCKLE DRIVING {;-( day we all headed back toward home, but did I mention that Larry took off with me in HOT PURSUIT and left everybody else behind, well not actually until we got to a stretch where the road develops a few curves and then we took off!!!!!!
So that you can see what it was all about that day this will be the only story, but there will be more than one post because of picture limitations...... Pictures 4 and 5 in this set are of a VW powered motorcycle and yes he is pulling a trailer!!!!!!
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