Jacksonville, Oregon

One of the folks taking the lighthouse tour raved about her town of Jacksonville. We talked to some other people here in Crescent City who agreed it was a neat place to visit. So on this first of the next four days off, we decided to give it a try. Before we got to this tunnel we drove through some more magnificent redwoods. Highway 199 is very winding and narrow, wouldn't want to drive it very often.

Here's where we had lunch--hungry after the three hour drive to get there. Very good.

I had to pose by this sign. The salewoman told me it was pronounced Petries (not sure what happened to the apostrophe), and since my maiden name is Petrie...I just had to have a picture. The store had some fun things in it too, but I didn't splurge.

This is one of the places we passed on our drive; it is not in Jacksonville.

Now I am letting the car guy take over the narrative!

saw this '54 packard clipper in some little burg in oregon yesterday. it was for sale for $10,500. they are pretty proud of old iron in these parts. overall it was very straight, but did have lots of rust issues on all of the chrome. it was all there, all trim. as packard used to say, "just ask the man that owns one"

these 5 were just up the road from the packard, outside of a junkyard. 3 '50's 4dr hudsons, an early '50's dodge, and a bullet nose studebaker. the dodge had $600 on the windshield and the others had $1000. considering how scarce these drop body hudsons are, that is a reasonable price. all of the cars looked like they had everything on them that they left the factory with.

this dodge wrecker was in front of the burlhouse. always liked the shape these wrecker bodies. another very straight piece of old iron, and it was all there. this was a traffic stopper, not for sale.

Our next to last stop was in Grants Pass to check out this candy factory. Very yummy. Then we went to McDonald's to use our free coupons for some fruit smoothies. It had started getting very hot hours before, so the icy drinks really hit the spot. Back to the coast to cool off and remind us why we are on the northern California coast!