Grants Pass, Oregon RVing

I moved to Grants Pass to get closer to the Rogue River and its adventurous possibilities. There are stories and pictures on my other website, Malia's Miles about the jetboat tour and some of the wildlife I saw there. There's also another page on the Galice - Hellgate Byway there, too, but I had to include more about it here not only because it's pretty enough, but because of the funny chance meeting outlined below.

I was having fun driving along and enjoying all the different views and moods of the river seen along this amazing road.

At the pulloff right before the bridge, I watched some rafters float by and thought of my niece, Heather, because we had talked about taking a whitewater rafting trip together.

As I was getting ready to leave the large empty parking area, a big white truck pulled up right in front of me, blocking my exit. As I was wondering what the deal was with this idiot, I saw a woman get out of the truck, and I thought "Wow, that looks just like Heather." But I thought I was halucinating because I had just been thinking about her. Heather lives in Eugene - surely that's not really her. But as she came up to my window, I could see it really was! She was laughing because she couldn't believe it was me - she had just been thinking of me, too, and couldn't believe she saw me on the side of the road! She works for the Forest Service and was doing some followup in the area. She was on her way back to the hotel thinking that she had to contact me while she was in Grants Pass.

She was traveling with her boss, but work being finished, she was able to take off with me for the rest of my trip down the Byway.

I continued stopping to take tons of pictures of us both and the incredible scenery.

It wasn't until we were almost back to my house that she told me she didn't understand what I was taking pictures of - she was so used to these kind of roads and this kind of beauty, especially in her line of work. I had to tell her she was taking way too much for granted and advised her to look around with new eyes - southern Oregon is most certainly a very special and unusual place!