Tuesday was chore day in the small town of Forks. Forks is famous for being the setting of the Twilight vampire books and movies and is doing what it can to sell souvenirs and conduct Twilight tours. I figured if Dave and I hung around the local high school that Bella went to, we’d be [...]
Archive for September, 2011
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
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Monday, September 19, 2011 The Olympics
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We are so lucky. The weather report for the Olympic Rain Forest area was…wait for it…rain! We were reconciled to chilly, rainy weather. It never happened. Friday was driving day and it wasn’t that far to our next spot, but saying goodbye to all the Lazy Dazers took quite a while. There were several at [...]
Thursday, September 15 – A Lazy Daze confab
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What a change! After a final butter-melting day in the Portland area, we headed for the coast. The clouds were predominating the sky and it was much cooler. We tooled along OR-26 until we didn’t and began crawling along for a couple of miles. We finally saw the cause: an old beater station wagon that [...]
Sunday, September 11, 2011 The Portland Experience
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We’ve had a bit of shock for the last couple of days. We took off from Florence yesterday to go 175 miles to Portland. We sailed along without difficulties north on US-101 until we hit Lincoln City. My God, what a slowdown! We crawled along at about 5 miles per hour, purely because of the [...]
Sunday, September 4 – Central Oregon Coast
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We had an easy drive to Florence, OR on the coast and found the Heceta Beach RV Park where we can hear the sound of the ocean, two blocks away. We took a walk along the beach, looking for whole sand dollars, but only finding half dollars. It’s a beautiful beach, with pale, fine sand. [...]
