During the past few years, we've traveled fairly heavily in the Fall and then settled down in one spot for a few months during the Winter season. This year, we have itchy feet and plan to do doing things a little bit different by staying a few weeks or a month in one location and then moving on. Here's where we stayed from mid-November to mid-December.
Winchester Bay RV Resort — on the beautiful Central Coast. This is the view we had from our window. Situated between Reedsport and Coos Bay, this little park is only 100 miles away from the Eugene area and was our transition spot for 10 days after our visit with family and friends in the Northwest (as always wonderful and too short). 
We've stayed in this park quite often (even back before we sold our house) and have always loved it.
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On the way from our stay at Winchester Bay, we stopped for a weekend in Brookings, which is supposed to be the Banana Belt of the Oregon Coast. Not this time though. We experienced two days of the worst downpour ever, ever. At least it was a good reminder of why we sold the house and why we don't want to be in Oregon during the winter. We are so tired of rain!
And so we were really glad to get to California — it seemed like just as we crossed the stateline the sun came out. Getting to our destination, RiverWalk RV Park in Fortuna, we drove through the Redwood State and National Parks. Beautiful — hard to get good pictures.
RiverWalk RV Park http://www.riverwalkrvpark.com is situated across a quiet street from the Eel River and there's a lovely walking path along the bank. Fortuna is just a few miles inland from the coastal towns of Eureka/Arcata, which we've always loved. Birding is wonderful in this area. There are lots of easy-to-get-to places to walk and explore along the beach and at the wonderful Arcata Marsh. 
There are a couple of colleges in the area, which we feel always adds a good vibe. There are great little counter-culture shops, food stores and restaurants, but there are also good supermarkets and a mall, so we had all the usual necessities of life. There was even a good brew-pub within walking distance of the RV Park.
Lots of great places to explore in this area. We drove along the Avenue of the Giants and marveled again at the ancient Redwood Trees that line this section of highway. Stopped for some strolls in the forest along the way.
We spent a couple of days browsing around the nearby town of Ferndale — This Victorian town has a wonderful old general store with all kinds of old-fashioned merchandise that you never see anywhere else. Also in the area is Loleta, an old farm town where there is a wonderful family-owned cheese making facility. You can watch the cheese being made, sample to your heart's content, and, of course, buy some of your favorite varieties.
We drove a few miles to visit Trinidad (it's the village that "played" Cabot's Cove Maine in the old Angela Lansbury series Murder She Wrote). We walked on the beach and had coffee in a funky little shop. The commercial crab season was beginning the next day so we walked out onto the docks and watched the fisherman loading the boats and getting ready to go out. We used to take our little boat out into Winchester Bay to do a bit of crabbing for fun. 
But here on Humboldt Bay, the ocean is a little bit wilder, at the best of circumstances. A heavy storm moved in a couple of days later. I'm still worried about those crabbers.
Yes, just as we were almost beginning to think that Fortuna was the kind of area we could enjoy for a little longer, the rains arrived — and with a vengeance. This was that Pacific Northwest "storm of the century" that brought all kinds of problems to the coast. We were situated just enough inland to be perfectly safe as long as we hunkered down inside. We stayed until the storm lifted and then headed south. Did I mention that we're tired of rain?
http://www.sommervillervpark.com I wouldn't even try to begin to write about most parks where we we just stay overnight. But Almond Tree Park in Coalinga is worth an exception. We stumbled on it on our way south, the second night after we left the coast. This park is right off the freeway, but was sheltered enough to be very quiet. We got in about six (really late for us), but the manager was very helpful and found us a level pull-through spot. On checking in, he gave us a couple of little post-it note type calendars for 2008. I really like keeping these in our travel journals — and they're hard to find. In the morning, we found a free newspaper delivered to our door. What could be nicer? A highly recommended over-night spot.
Here we are parked at Orange Grove RV Park, Bakersfield, where we arrived on the 7th of December. http://www.orangegrovervpark.com
It's a lovely park and a perfect stopping place on the way to or from southern California — we've stayed there many times through the years. This time we spent a little longer than we might have wished. While the park is lovely and well run (and the oranges are best we've ever tasted) the city of Bakersfield is not the most interesting one in California. We had to get some work done on our heat pump/air conditioner and Bakersfield had a Camping World that could do the work. So we stayed long enough to get an appointment and get the work done.
It was sunny all the time we were there, but there's a haze of pollution. Still it was great fun to step out the door and pick oranges for our breakfast. "Our" crop is at its peak and we even took a bowl-full with us when we left. (The management really does encourage you to pick the fruit, even providing long-handled pickers once the reachable parts of the trees are bare.) 
We rented a small car for the last weekend we were in Bakersfield and took a side trip to Long Beach (about 150 miles) to visit my aunt and cousins. We had a wonderful visit and were lucky to be there the weekend of the Christmas boat parade along Naples Canal. It was amazing to see the decorated boats and homes — and we got to go to their parade-night party. Lots of fun with great people and gorgeous decorations on the boats and in the neighborhood.
It's an easy sixty miles from Eugene-Springfield to Florence on the beautiful Oregon Coast and about the same distance the other direction to the mountains, where there are lots and lots of wonderful campgrounds on both the Willamette and McKenzie Rivers. We've always loved the outdoors and camping, so it was a great place to live for 30+ years! 
