Day One: Port Townsend, WA to Ashland, OR

Well! After lazy departure from Port Townsend, around 11 AM we made pretty good time covering just under 500 miles. WA-101 was beautiful, as always and we took I-5 through the boring Northern parts of Oregon. We would have liked to take 101 most of the way through both states, but we were trying to make it to Ashland by around 8:30 in order to observe a production as part of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Oregon has the most unfortunate drivers I’ve witnessed in quite some time. Tailgaiting at highway speeds, failing to signal, ridiculous! We ate at Carl’s Jr. another first for me. It was delicious! It was getting dark when we arrived in Ashland, so finding a camp-site and getting the tent up was our first priority. We stopped at a 7-11 and Amber...