So now we are wandering south along the Pacific Coast. We started this morning at Fort Stevens State Park near Astoria, Oregon, by heading up on the dunes so Dave could get this trip’s pictures of the Peter Iredale, his favorite shipwreck. We park in an area that lets me watch the waves without having to negotiate the sand dunes while Dave wanders around to his heart’s content. That content came a little earlier than usual today since it’s November and the wind is blowing down from the mountains. Still we both got an ocean fix which was nice.
Fort Stevens campground has two major recycling areas. That makes me happy.
We drove south along the coast to Seaside, Oregon, for lunch. This is my favorite coastal town. We’ve been here for several vacations when we stayed in an ocean side studio apartment right on the Prom. We walk more when we are in Seaside than we do anywhere else. Today we walked about a block from where we parked to the Pig N Pancake for lunch. This is one of our “regular” restaurants in Seaside. It’s not fancy and the service is slow but the food is good and the people watching is great. Seaside appears to have been doing some economic recovery since we were last here several years ago. There are some new businesses and things have been tidied up as well. I think I could live here year around but we’ve not spent much winter time here so maybe I couldn’t.
While we were in Seaside, Dave did our grocery shopping at Safeway. Doing grocery shopping the afternoon before Thanksgiving is not high on his list of enjoyable things but he’s out of milk so…
Today’s interesting street name was “Picture Window Lane”. I guess it makes sense that all the houses along the ocean would have picture windows but I wonder what marketing person decided to name the street that?
We also saw “Hug Point”. Do you suppose it’s related to Lovers’ Lane?
We stopped at several overlooks along the highways to take pictures of the ocean. Here’s some for you to enjoy.
Now we are in Nehalem Bay State Park. We will be here two nights. I’m hoping the weather will be nice enough tomorrow for us to play with the Segway seats to decide which to keep and which to send back.
TTYL,
Linda