Road Trip - Day 11

Today we went to church with Chris. Their branch has a nice little chapel. After the block of meetings we hung out for a few hours and visited with Chris and Terry. We found that we all enjoy cruises and Orland and Terry share a keen interest in home solar power. They plan to keep in touch whenever one of them comes across something new or interesting about solar. Orland clued Terry in to Home Power Magazine, on-line solar radiation calculators (for figuring out how much energy can be generated based on the conditions that are normal for your area) and to the classes and seminars available the Real Goods alternate energy center.

We had a nice little drive up the coast and inland to Salem. Tomorrow we will spend the first part of the day at Silver Falls State Park and then head part way home.


Here is a set of road signs that we thought were so funny we had to turn around to take a picture.














When we got to our Motel in Salem, these cars were in the parking lot. They are Plymouth Prowlers. As you can see, two of them have little matching trailers. Pretty fancy!