"Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop." - Robert Musil

 We're at Humbug Mountain State Park, just south of Port Orford, OR (pop. 1170). The park is just on the leeward side of a BIG hill that sits between us and the ocean. I guess it pretty much has to be on the leeward side or it would be in the ocean, but never mind that detail. It's not the nicest site we've had - on the inside of the loop with no trees separating us from our neighbors - but the bathroom and showers are the newest of what we've used.

It's so far off the grid that not only is there no cell phone coverage, we can only pull in one radio station, a cheesy Christian station out of ... I don't know where. So I'm playing music off my iPad. It's mostly classical, so Pam isn't loving it, but she doesn't complain, either.

We walked down to the beach yesterday afternoon when it was just after high tide. It's wide and sandy with a BIG hill just past the high tide mark. Yep, we're camped on the other side of that hill, but not to worry, there's a little channel through the hill cut by a stream. So we don't have to go over it to get to the beach. We will climb it this afternoon, though, because there's supposed to be some great views from the top.

Misc. musings near the end of our trip:

• People who go "camping" in monstrous 5th wheels or even bigger motorhomes should turn off their porch lights at night. We really don't need their halogen illumination lighting up nature. God did it quite adequately with the moon and stars. 
• Friendliness generally rises in inverse proportion to the size of the town or city. 
• Don't ask for an indie coffee shop in rural towns. They also don't know the term one-off. But that's because there isn't anything else there. Doh!
• I'm finishing up the Carol Higgins Clark book on CD. Two stars, and only because I'm a nice guy. 
• I'm also reading (on my Kindle) Stephen King's "11/22/63" which started slowly and feeling like "Back to the Future" meets "Picture of Dorian Gray" but then got real good. 
• With very few exceptions I'm not missing TV at all. I go through this every year - realizing how much time I waste watching TV, getting home and watching very little, and then slowly falling back into wasting too much time in front of it. I'm recording the new show "Tiny House Nation" and this weekend's F1 race. Oh, and the new "Three Musketeers" on BBCAmerica. Beyond that, meh. 

The laundry is done, the latte drunk, and the stomach ready for lunch. We'll head back to the campsite to eat and then hike Humbug Mtn. Then the six miles back into Port Orford for dinner at the coolest little joint we've ever discovered - Griff's. We ate there three years ago and promised ourselves we'd get back. Picks in tomorrow's post.