Friday, 11 May 2018
Emerald Valley RV Park — Jefferson, Oregon
Temps: 67F (19C) / 48F (9C)
Technically, a very long 409-mile (650 km) drive would have allowed us to skip this overnight stop, but we don’t drive long days like that anymore … unless absolutely unavoidable. So, we programmed the GPS for Jefferson, Oregon — about halfway between Eugene and Salem — and set off from Valley of the Rogue State Park shortly after 9:00a.
We made two stops on this 199-mile (318 km) driving day. The first one was at the Cabin Creek Rest Area; the second one was for lunch at the Gettings Creek Rest Area. Both of these rest areas are smaller than I would have expected for a major thoroughfare like I-5. It was a brisk 57F (14C) at our lunch spot, so we ate and ran … so to speak.
We pulled into Emerald Valley RV Park at 2:00p … temp 69F (21C) … in the sun. The campground is nothing special, but located off I-5N, it’s convenient. We could hear some traffic noise, but nothing too bothersome. For some reason, our pre-assigned site wasn’t available. Instead, we were directed to #6, which turned out to be better in that it was a pull through end-site … gravel and fairly level. It was just a tad too short to keep the CR-V hooked up, though. At $39.70/night, this 50A-FHU site was a bit spendy for an overnight. But we got good line-of-sight with the satellite dish; there was a cable TV hook-up, which Mui likes to have for the bedroom TV; the wi-fi connection wasn’t half bad to upload some photos; and the T-Mobile signal was strong enough to handle the VPN connection so that we could stream the latest episode of a Turkish TV drama that we like to watch.
All in all, an unremarkable driving day … which is the best kind of driving day to have.
T-Mobile Update: There were some spots where the iPad seemed to have difficulty connecting to the LTE signal, but overall good enough signal strength that I had no problems staying online throughout the day.
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On your way to more adventure. At least the rest areas are open. It seems many in California are not open.
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