07/16/2026
Some people follow the sun as they age. Pat bought a camper and followed the birds. 🐦
Meet Pat Gordon: an Audubon leader from Hayward, California, whose life has been built around noticing wild things and helping other people see them too. She and her husband Phil originally spent years birding and camping in a Lance overhead camper. After Phil passed, the Lance became too tall, too windy, and too much to handle solo, but Pat still wanted to follow the birds - she just needed a rig that would be simple for her to maintain on her own. So she brought her Ford F-250 up to Winlock and chose an 8’ Alaskan built for solo travel.
Since then, Pat has taken her Alaskan through rain-soaked Oregon campgrounds, California coastlines, Pinnacles in condor weather, and a 10‑day solo run through Anza-Borrego and the Salton Sea. Between trips, she writes the Southern Alameda County Audubon newsletter, compiles Christmas Bird Counts, monitors shorebirds on San Francisco Bay, and spends Friday mornings birding with seniors because there’s always more to see when you know where to look!
Catch up with Pat and more details of her adventures in our recent Alaskan Life piece linked below!
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