Oregon - Along The Coast From Florence to Seaside

Old blimp hangar museum at Tillamook. The plane in the foreground was used to haul rocket sections to Cape Canaveral. The hangar could hold 7 blimps at once.

 Highway 101 in Oregon zigzags along the rocky coast line sharing varying views of high waves - giant rocks - pine trees - and foggy skies. It is 2 lanes most of the way which would probably make it a painful drive during tourist season - but right now it is not bad. We could keep our rental Versa at about 53 MPH most of the way.

At Florence - we woke up in our motel room with an enclosed front porch. After a hotel breakfast we headed north in the light light rain. The little tourist towns - Newport - Cannon Beach - Tillamook - provided just enough distraction. Lulu decided that Seaside has a nice ring to it and so we got an oceanside hotel - Tideriver Suites - very nice. Seaside has a great little downtown - and I was immediately attracted to Pigs N Pancakes - where a tall stack of sourdough pancakes waited. We walked the beach where the sun showed its face for a few minutes so we had proof that it does shine here sometimes. :-)

Today we plan to visit Astoria and Olympia - I am sure you are looking forward to another state capital picture.

Sunday at noon we mount our Norwegian Pearl cruise ship for a week long ride up and down the coast to Alaska.

We did not have time to visit this famous air museum in Tillamook. Seven blimps could fit into that hangar together - during World War II the blimps were used to find submarines.

High speed chargers - on the left - for the Tesla - on the right - for the Nissan Leaf.

Those blocks of cheese weigh 40 pounds each. At the cheese factory in Tillamook.

On the beach at Seaside OR - by our hotel - the sun came out just for a little bit. There were a lot of hard shell crabs on the beach.