Tuesday night, Vaughn and I went out to dinner – he had clam chowder in a bread bowl, and some exquisite grilled oysters, I had prawns. We couldn’t be on the coast and not go out for seafood even though we had been eating crabs and clams quite often. Then we did a little grocery […]
Our new fun! Sandboarding on the Oregon coast!
Hannah had two areas of concern when we announced our idea to travel for the winter; one was missing her friends, and the other was not being there for skiing season. Hannah has resigned herself to emailing her friends and sending them postcards occasionally (plus she will get to visit every 6 wks. when she […]
Happy Birthday Jake (& the Tillamook Air Museum)
Happy 12th Birthday Jacob! None of us slept very well with all the noise from the storm, so we didn’t get a very early start on Wednesday! After a late breakfast, we went to the Tillamook Air Museum. They had a short movie about the history of the hanger, and how the air museum came […]
Yum! The Tillamook Cheese Factory (& Cape Meares)
Tuesday was a rainy and dreary day. It seems so different here in Oregon than in Montana – if the sky looked so gray at home, you could just about guarantee a torrential downpour within 15 minutes. Here, I cannot read the weather, and am never quite sure how to dress the little kids! One […]
Cape Lookout State Park, Oregon
Monday afternoon we drove through Tillamook and out to the coast to the Cape Lookout State Park. We couldn’t believe how many other campers there were – we got one of the last full hookup sites ($14/night). It was a nice campground – about half of it was wide open spots; we THOUGHT that we […]