Tillamook, OR & geocaching

Hey, a second mostly sunny day on the OR coast! Judy went to the pool this morning to do some water aerobics and Barbara (from a beautiful Newmar fifth wheel and color matching Freightliner medium duty truck) joined her. They planned our day to go geocaching, visit a couple beaches, and tour the cheese factory in Tillamook. Excellent day. We found the two caches we were seeking, great fun! At one site there were several para sailers jumping off a cliff and gently gliding down several hundred feet to the beach. We had a picnic at their landing site on the ocean. We then finished the afternoon at the Tillamook Cheese factory. We could walk around on the mezzanine and watch the process from start to finish. Of course they also make ice cream there so we had lots more ice cream to eat than the cheese samples.

Newport, OR

Today we traveled to Newport and met Gary Thurmond, one of the NuWa Owners Forum founders. He lives a few miles away and was gracious enough to show us around today. The pictures show Cape Foulweather, Yaquina Head Lighthouse (built in 1873), Yaquina Bay Lighthouse (built in 1871 with attached house), fishing fleet, seals & sea lions at the Newport docks plus a few others. We had a good lunch at the Chowder House at Nye Beach and made it back home to get a picture by the CG of the beach sunset. At least we had some sun today!

Worlds shortest river....D River

So far Oregon's coastal weather has been very consistant, 40s at night, 50s daytime, solid overcast, & damp. Todays excitement was the laundry, Curves & a little grocery shopping. We stopped at the world's shortest river, the D River which is 120 feet long. Yep, that's the whole river in the picture. Our new neighbors are from Grosse Point and are on their way to Alaska. They are also Western Horizon members so we exchanged info about CGs.

This evening Judy spent an hour in the pool doing water aerobics and then we both sat in the hot tub relaxing from the days stress.

Exploring Niskowin area

Today we went to Lincoln City and the Niskowin State Park. We did some shopping, Judy did Curves, we ate at a 60's dinner and gandered at a statue of Abe Lincoln on his horse. We was offered the govonership of the Oregon Territory in 1849 but turned the offer down; he must have anticipated a better position a few years later. Drab, dreary, damp, overcast, and cold day up here.

Neskowin, Oregon on the Pacific coast

Well, it's chilly and damp here. Mid 50s this afternoon when we arrived at 2:30 but sunny. More hills conquered by the Ford getting here. We traveled north in a valley again today between mountain ranges on each side then hung a left to the ocean going over one set of mountains with snow on their tops. The CG is pretty basic (it does have an indoor pool and hot tub) in an open field with Neskowin Creek on one side and hills on the other, on the other side of the hills is the ocean; a 1/2 mile walk from our campsite. We expect a damp and cool stay here but there's lots of exploring to do. Great Sprint signal for the cell phones and internet access.

Sutherlin, OR

Still here, the turkeys wandering around yesterday were kind of nifty until sun up today. They like to chat (gobble loudly) as they wander. Randy, Kristi & Devyn thought Hanna the rooster was bad, now I know what to leave in Hannas place this summer. We rode through Sutherlin, fueled the truck and washed it, and got a few groceries. Nice town and area. We walked around the park and spotted two jack rabbits but I couldn't get a decent picure of them in the sun. Judy played Po-Ke-No this evening and won lots of pennies. 70 and partly sunny today.

Sutherlin, OR

As we drove up I5 we passed 14,179 foot tall Mt Shasta covered in snow. We could easily see it more than 60 mile away and at the dam yesterday although it didn't show up in any of the pictures due to the haze. We huffed and puffed up all the mountains leaving CA and enerting OR. A couple times we were down to 35 to 40 mph but the Ford just downshifted and the Tow Haul mode did it's thing going up or down. She earned her keep today. I'll give her some diesel tomorrow and fondle the oil dipstick.

We are at an Escapee SKP park in Sutherlin, OR. We have deer and turkeys roaming around the park behind the trailer. You have these in KC too don't ya Steve? We will be able to add the OR sticker to the US map on our slide by the door tomorrow.

57 degrees at 9pm, It's Spring up here with the trees budding & leafing out; lilacs & daffodils & tulips are blooming along with the azalias and rhodedrons. Life is good. Judy won 3 times at Bingo tonight, they want her to leave ASAP.