20250410 Thursday, April 10, 2025 Rogue Valley to La Center, WA
This was another day of hard-core driving. We had pondered the possibility of visiting Crater Lake, but when we looked into it, the main roads and rim drive are still closed for the season due to snow and ice. They will reopen in June. So we decided to just shoot north on I-5.
We refueled in Central Point at the Costco, which is just north of Medford. The diesel pump there said “May Contain Up to 5% Biodiesel,” so it was no problem.
Our next stop was at a US Chef Store in Eugene to shop for some things for Ciara’s wedding, including plastic cups and fortune cookies. It was a good spot to stretch our legs and use the bathrooms.
Traffic on I-5 was fine as we managed to maintain at least the speed limit most of the way. It wasn’t until we got to the outskirts of Portland that things got congested. We made a second refueling stop at the Portland Costco near the airport, which has diesel. The pump there surprisingly said “Biodiesel Blend. Contains biomass-based diesel or biodiesel in quantities between 5-20%”. Well, that wasn’t particularly helpful since B5 is OK, but B20 is not. We are hoping it is closer to B5 than B20. But at only $3.599/gal, who’s to complain? When we next fill up somewhere in Washington, it will almost certainly be well over $4/gal.
Our destination for the night was The Gather and Feast Farm, in a town called La Center, WA. We had never even heard of La Center before this trip. It is east of Woodland and about 20 miles north of Vancouver. The town is quite cute with some historic store fronts and a short Main Street. The Gather and Feast Farm is a hobby farm situated among rolling hills and forests. The owners are a professional caterer with a 4000sq ft kitchen space in Portland, and his wife is a flatbed trucking freight consolidator. They have a large cage-free chicken enclosure, garden areas with various crops, and pastures with some highland cows, goats, and pigs.
They had a gravel loop with 3 designated Harvest Host parking spots in a row. The sites were all nice and level, with a nice grassy lawn and picnic table by each site. However, because they are all in a row, everyone would have to arrive and leave in consecutive order. Fortunately for us tonight, we were the only Harvest Host guests.
We had picked up a Costco Pizza in Portland and had that for dinner, but bought some brats and tonkatsu ramen broth from the Gather and Feast Farm, which we will have at a later date.
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