Sunday 26 August 2012

August 26 24th day OTR

We left our hosts around 9:30 this morning to head out to the coast.

Yesterday proved to be a long and eventful day.  We started in Mount Angel at the Abby,  and after we picked up our picnic lunch we drove to Silver Falls state park where we hiked to one of the 10 falls in the park.

We had a beautiful, sunny day with a temp of 22C.  Great walking weather.  Today is cloudy and cool.

last night we took our hosts out to dinner at their favourite restaurant, a converted hotel.  We ate on the rooftop bar and finished with drinks in the cellar bar.  Great evening.  With last night's driving and yesterday afternoon's driving we covered a lot of county roads in this part of Oregon.

Not only do they grow hops in this area but also garlic, onions, broccoli and christmas trees.  The agriculture variation alone was worth all the driving.

Today we need to stop early to get some food for cooking tonight and to do some laundry, our bedding which has been sitting in the car for two weeks.  We reached the Oregon coast around noon and found a Safeway, a McDonald's and a few miles down the road, a WalMart for propane. 

We are at the KOA in Waldport, Oregon and I can see the ocean from the car.  Yes, I said car.  It is raining and it looks like it won't stop for awhile.  We have not set up the tent and won't until it stops raining.  If it continues to rain, we will move stuff around and just sleep in the van.  Nothing worse than getting wet and damp in a tent.  Tomorrow is supposed to be sunny along the Oregon coast and Tuesday along the northern California coast so that sounds better already.

Dinner tonight will be salad and pork chops on the camp stove, along with some excellent crusty buns from Safeway.  Keep you fingers crossed that it stopped raining!!

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