must sees.

When you get recommendations of must-see roads, places or things as a full or part-time RV traveler make sure you consider your source. For example..our drive/stay in Oregon. We had heard from multiple people that we must, must, absolutely must-not-miss..Hwy 101 along the coast in Oregon after our stops in Portland & Eugene. Here is where we realized our “mistake” of not taking into account who was doing the recommending. There is a huge difference between someone recommending a place they visit (a particular location) and a recommendation from a fellow RV traveler. All of the people recommending the 101 (when we later reflected) were people who went to a specific place on the 101 versus driving it without intent to stop but rather just to take in the scenery. 90% of the drive was all dense trees with zero view of anything else, no coast, no ocean, mountains, nada…until the very last few miles before entering into California. The Oregon coast is beautiful, but you need to be traveling to a specific place, spot at the beach, etc. to actually see it. So… if you’re vacationing and you drive to Coos Bay for example, you’ll be in the town and have beautiful beach and ocean views, wonderful! But… if you don’t have time scheduled to drive into this beach (or any other town/beach along this stretch of coast) you see nothing but dense forest, big difference. As full or part-time travelers there is much to see and you don’t always have time (for one reason or another) to see it all at once, you may be in an area and have only a day or two or you may only have your drive time and what you see as you pass by… hence the importance of getting a referral of what route to drive from a fellow traveler who knows that if at all possible you want the scenery out your windshield to be a good one. Food for thought.
(as noted our drive was the Southern half of the 101 in Oregon.. the Northern half could be different, we were only instructed on the stretch from Florence to California)

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