One Old Thing, One New Person

The Old Thing is a now-defunct magazine called Country Discoveries, dated March/April 2003. In the magazine was a short article about Beckie's, a restaurant not too far from Crater Lake. We've been carting that magazine around for 10 years.

We have YEARS of issues of this magazine stored at home.

If you can't read the article, the keywords are "Huckleberry Pies."

The New Person is Sue Malone, another RV Blogger who has been commenting on our post for a few years. Sue's own blog is The Moho and Other Traveling Tales. Sue lives nearby and drove on up to see us Sunday, another first-time meeting of RV Bloggers!

Sue is a delightful lady and has a lot in common with our Suzy. The two are about the same age, both have an oldest daughter named Deb, both have an oldest grandson aged 30, Sue has red hair, Suzy used to before she accepted silver.

Sue has been to Beckie's a number of times, and spent several minutes poring over maps with us, detailing a very scenic route to the restaurant.

Well now, that scenic route took us nearly four hours to drive 120 miles. We made only one false turn and discovered that one quickly. Along the way, we explored several  National Forest Service campgrounds that looked interesting. Some weren't.

As we pulled up to Beckie's, we could see they were busy, as several people were waiting outside.

Suzy is heading directly in to get us on the list while I fuss around taking pictures.

We had about a 20-minute wait; the food was worth the wait. We split a New York Steak, had a nice Merlot, and topped it off with "Very Berry" pie, since Huckleberries aren't in season.

Suzy graciously let me have the larger serving!

On the way back to our park--- by the way, we took the GPS-directed route instead of the scenic route  --- 49 miles and just over an hour --- we stopped to investigate the gorge of the Rogue River (we'll post about that later) and took some time to peek into an osprey's nest (three babies) and to photograph a young colt and its mother.

And on that youthful note, we'll say goodnight to this beautiful day in ... Our Life on Wheels.