PK,
I would suggest seeing the Sea Lion Caves outside Florence. Coos Bay has a really great botanical garden. Just north of Coos Bay at Winchester Bay, there is a great RV park with beautiful views of the bay from your rear window. Its a really nice park we just spent a week there is June. It right next to the entrance to the sand dunes park where people take their ATVS out to run in the sand. You can stop at one of the tourist traps that sell dunes rides in huge dune buggies if you want to see what they are like. South of Florence.
The south coast has several beaches with parking lots above them so you can get out to the water. The water is cold..... sorry. At Gold Beach you can take jet boat rides up the Rogue River which are fun. You can also check out the sea lions competing with the fishermen in the river for the salmon. About 20 miles south of there is Brookings/Harbor, two towns that run into each other. That is the "banana belt" of the coast where the weather is usually warmer than the rest of the coast, unless it is hot inland, then it stays kind of foggy on the coast. We are a litle cooler today inland, but it is supposed to get hotter the next few days.
From Brookings you can continue down to Crescent City in Calif. and see the first of many groves of redwoods on the CA coast. I'm not as familiar with the area below Crescent City. Eventually you will be able to choose to stay on 101 or get on Hwy 1. Hwy 1 is the older route and is very scenic though it does get pretty curvey in some places. A stop at the Golden Gate bridge in San Francisco is a must. You might want to take an inland detour north of San Fran to see the Napa Valley and some of the famous vinyards and wineries, just be sure to park the Luv Shack before doing any tasting!
If you like theme parks you might want to spend a day at Six Flags/ Vellajo (probably spelled wrong) that also has Sea World attached to it. It is a fun place to spend a day even if you don't ride the coasters.
Enjoy your tour through our part of the world! I'm recovered from surgery enough now that I can check the forum a little more often and Boatdoc lives near Coos Bay, so someone should be able to help you out with questions.
Kristy
