Thanks to a bad dream, I was up and out of bed as soon as I woke and left the Cabana to a beautiful view of mist coming through the trees. Dan followed me out and made us a coffee and hot chocolate to take down to the beach for a stroll. It was a…

It’s hard to believe just how lazy we were this morning. The forest was letting slithers of light in through the canopy, but it was still so nice and warm under the covers that we couldn’t convince ourselves to get up. The exception was when Dan made it from the bed to the kitchen to…

Just as we went to sleep to the sound of rain, we woke up to it as well. Like the rookies we are, we’d left our chairs outside and they were inevitably soaked along with the rest of the forest. At 8am, I was up and awake so I sat in bed blogging while Dan…

We didn’t muck around this morning, but we didn’t rush it either. Despite our excitement to eat dinner’s left overs in burrito form for breakfast, it was warm so we opted for cereal. I only sat down for a minute before I packed a bag for our six mile round trip to the highest point…

We planned to hike to the highest point you can get to on Mount Hood today but it was only a 6 mile return trip so we were in no rush. After 9am came and went, we emerged from the Cabana and dealt with going to the bathroom in this camp that had no privacy…

If it wasn’t for the bugs, we’d have hung around at camp a little longer. The trains had been almost therapeutic during the night and the river was a hive of activity in the morning with fisherman and tub boats pushing cargo up and down the channel. We found a window of opportunity to have…

When I woke up, I was busting to go to the bathroom with no options close by so I was quickly out of the Cabana and into the Astro to drive over to the park where we’d originally planned on camping last night. Dan followed soon after but I was in the bathroom by the…

Another great snooze fest in the morning, we got up when it suited us and both felt it was a pancakes type of morning. While Dan was in the kitchen, I went down to the river to splash my face with water and wake myself up. It was barely 9am and it was already hot,…

Despite the sun shining brightly through our uncovered tent, we managed to stay semi-asleep for a good while in the morning, not wanting to move. Cleo was still perfectly comfortable as well in her little corner. We let her out to go chase shit while we continued snoozing and after taking a big drink from…

We still snoozed like the lazy dirtbags we were, but as soon as we were up, we didn’t muck around. We were excited to get hiking. Cereal for breakfast, we sat by the fire ring to eat then packed it up and left. Dan went first up the road since he was more capably equipped…