And going back to Klamath Falls. I wanted to go get another Mixed Berry Smoothie Bowl, and while I was at it, I wanted to clean up the post offices between Eugene and Roseburg adjacent to I-5. Today’s catch was seven post offices; tomorrow on the way to K-Falls, I’ll grab 4 more. Two are just east of Roseburg, and the other two are south of Grants Pass.
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- Creswell – Home of Mark Few, the head coach for the Gonzaga Bulldogs men’s basketball team, which Jimmy Kimmel swears is a made-up college that doesn’t exist. (9/21/25)
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- Lorane – A very cool small A-frame. I wonder if the postmaster lives upstairs. (920/25)
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- Dorena – The town was named by combining the first names of Dora Burnette and Lorena Martin, according to Wikipedia, with no further information. (9/21/25)
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- Yoncalla – Settlers first came to the area that would become Yoncalla in a covered wagon in the fall of 1848. Jesse Applegate arrived in 1849 and named the area after the Yoncalla-speaking Native Americans of the region. (9/21/25)
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- Winchester – Winchester is an unincorporated community that is large enough for a post office but small enough that its census is not taken separately from the much larger Roseburg 5 miles south. (9/21/25)
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- Wilber – I always like it when the post office is painted in the same manner as the rest of the building. (9/21/25)
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- Umpqua – See that dirt road in the background? Google Maps was telling me the post office was 1/2 mile further along on it to the right. I took the photo but drove down that way just to see. No post office. (9/21/25)
The fourth post office in the top row is Yoncalla. When I checked it off on Google Maps, I noticed in the street view image a woman waving at the Google Maps car. Curious, I moved around in street view, and it turns out she was not alone, and I don’t think it was a woman; it was a high school-aged girl and seven of her friends. Hit this link and you’ll see trouble. The date of the photo is August 2012; that would put these ladies in their late twenties. I wonder where they are and what they are doing now?