Wednesday, September 1. 2010
A trip down the Coast
I actually had to look at my own blog to figure out where I left off I am so many days behind. Hard having such an active social life, not to mention that I think I have been traveling through every spot in the States that Verizon may have a signal but ATT sure don't...
We traveled down the Washington and Oregon Coast a bit, where our winter coats came out quite quickly. You will be able to tell quite easily where we needed to wear them in these pictures below.
I loved the amount of birds (bloody big seagulls) that were sitting on the beaches
Could not convince my husband to put even his toes in the water, even if we saw surfers....
My dad walking down the beach...
And more birdies...
This was on the Columbia River, just before we crossed into Oregon. There were literally thousands of boats out for the salmon run...
At least this seagull was smart enough to live on the sunny part of the coast!
Over all, we found we could see a lot more of the ocean going down the northern part of the Oregon Coast then when we went down last year and mostly did the southern Oregon Coast..
Yes, I made them pose for pictures....Yes, they hate me!
Although they seemed to be much happier posing for pictures when I put an ice cream cone in their hand at the Tillamook Factory! Had to laugh their going through their cheese sample line, some people thought they were at a full fledged dinner buffet never mind a sample. I did not know you could fit so many pieces of cheese on one little toothpick....
Even the seagulls here get ice cream cones. Must be why so many are around...
I love stopping to see my old high school friend from SHAPE, Belgium in Portland. She knows all these great little restaurants and swears that she is trying to eat her way through every single last one of them. Tonight we were even able to meet Beth's husband, John, who just finished climbing DENALI. You know for training they put on 75 lb packs and go to the gym and train with them on? Crazy stuff...
Tonight's restaurant did not dissapoint, although if I would have written the blog a week ago I might have remembered the name of it! I had an amazing pizza with garlic aioli, sweet corn, shallots, chicken and red onion...I barely restrained myself from eating it all...
The guys hamburgers with homemade pommes frites certainly looked spectacular though too. And the fries were good.
We dropped the RV before coming into town and just took the car. Bazza apparently thought that parking spaces would be a premium and pulled into the first one he saw which meant we did get to walk off the dinner calories getting there and back to the restaurant. I know I need it anyways. Holiday eating does play havoc with my smart calorie choices....
We drove down the freeway a bit after dinner just finding a rest stop to pull over at, as we had a fairly long hike so we could get down to Reno by dinner to visit ANOTHER old high school friend from Shape...Social butterfly now aren't I??
Our friend Brad, invited us over for a barbecue where he lives over looking Reno. Got to love a man who grills, unlike my Australian husband...
The view from his back yard was spectacular.... we saw quail, heard coyotes, saw rabbits and I understand that they even have wild horses that run down their road....
A great steak was had and all the fixings...
I have found my self missing my large camera about daily on this road trip. Using the point and shoot just is not the same...
We had great company with Brad and his wife Linette...
We felt like celebrities as Brad brought out his Louis X111 cognac, which, no matter how smooth it was, I was not going to drink it, but somehow in a moment that shows me my husband is still full of surprises, he happily drank his and mine down quite quickly!
My dad just enjoyed the cool evening. I think we slept well that night, and were hoping not to have such long drives the next day... I am keeping everyone on a need to know basis, including the driver, mostly because just like my charters, I am not sure what I am doing daily on this trip until just before!
We traveled down the Washington and Oregon Coast a bit, where our winter coats came out quite quickly. You will be able to tell quite easily where we needed to wear them in these pictures below.
I loved the amount of birds (bloody big seagulls) that were sitting on the beaches
Could not convince my husband to put even his toes in the water, even if we saw surfers....
My dad walking down the beach...
And more birdies...
This was on the Columbia River, just before we crossed into Oregon. There were literally thousands of boats out for the salmon run...
At least this seagull was smart enough to live on the sunny part of the coast!
Over all, we found we could see a lot more of the ocean going down the northern part of the Oregon Coast then when we went down last year and mostly did the southern Oregon Coast..
Yes, I made them pose for pictures....Yes, they hate me!
Although they seemed to be much happier posing for pictures when I put an ice cream cone in their hand at the Tillamook Factory! Had to laugh their going through their cheese sample line, some people thought they were at a full fledged dinner buffet never mind a sample. I did not know you could fit so many pieces of cheese on one little toothpick....
Even the seagulls here get ice cream cones. Must be why so many are around...
I love stopping to see my old high school friend from SHAPE, Belgium in Portland. She knows all these great little restaurants and swears that she is trying to eat her way through every single last one of them. Tonight we were even able to meet Beth's husband, John, who just finished climbing DENALI. You know for training they put on 75 lb packs and go to the gym and train with them on? Crazy stuff...
Tonight's restaurant did not dissapoint, although if I would have written the blog a week ago I might have remembered the name of it! I had an amazing pizza with garlic aioli, sweet corn, shallots, chicken and red onion...I barely restrained myself from eating it all...
The guys hamburgers with homemade pommes frites certainly looked spectacular though too. And the fries were good.
We dropped the RV before coming into town and just took the car. Bazza apparently thought that parking spaces would be a premium and pulled into the first one he saw which meant we did get to walk off the dinner calories getting there and back to the restaurant. I know I need it anyways. Holiday eating does play havoc with my smart calorie choices....
We drove down the freeway a bit after dinner just finding a rest stop to pull over at, as we had a fairly long hike so we could get down to Reno by dinner to visit ANOTHER old high school friend from Shape...Social butterfly now aren't I??
Our friend Brad, invited us over for a barbecue where he lives over looking Reno. Got to love a man who grills, unlike my Australian husband...
The view from his back yard was spectacular.... we saw quail, heard coyotes, saw rabbits and I understand that they even have wild horses that run down their road....
A great steak was had and all the fixings...
I have found my self missing my large camera about daily on this road trip. Using the point and shoot just is not the same...
We had great company with Brad and his wife Linette...
We felt like celebrities as Brad brought out his Louis X111 cognac, which, no matter how smooth it was, I was not going to drink it, but somehow in a moment that shows me my husband is still full of surprises, he happily drank his and mine down quite quickly!
My dad just enjoyed the cool evening. I think we slept well that night, and were hoping not to have such long drives the next day... I am keeping everyone on a need to know basis, including the driver, mostly because just like my charters, I am not sure what I am doing daily on this trip until just before!
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