Staring at the stars. An idea comes.

I decided that our life outside the world, the mundane world that is, was interesting enough to read about. When did I decide this? While I was staring at the stars from the doorway of our tent last night. I thought about it, and thought "people might be interested in what spots we camped, and what we thought about each destination." I thought that we have enough experience in the field of camping and tramping we might be an authority. Well, you can't have a reputable blog without being an authority.

This weekend we spent two nights out among the stars and the trees in Tillamook forest at the "Cook Creek camp area". This area is made up 4 mile stretch of road with 17 dispersed established campsites running along the Cook Creek. Free camping only a 20 minute (or so) drive to Manzanita, a beautiful and quaint little beach front town more than made up for the, fairly light, ATV traffic. The short trip to the coast didn't make up for the lack of river access or the guns going off at 10 o'clock at night. The majority of sites had shear drops of 8 feet or more to reach the creek and there was a crazy person firing off a gun at what seemed an unreasonable hour (it was the solstice, the longest day of the year) even though there were signs clearly stating it was allowable behavior.

We were able to clean up our sight, which wasn't too overly abused, and set up camp in a quick minute. The car camping access was easy enough and I am pretty sure even the large RV's would be easy to get into most of the sites (no hookups). No amenities to be expected here besides a single porta-potty near site 4-5-6 and fire rings at each site. Sites were all open and spacious however and allowed for some fantastic night time sky gazing. We enjoyed the space and privacy overall but probably would not choose this spot over some others in the area in the future, but a great one to keep in the back of your mind.