Old Town Inn Florence

... Highway through Cascade National Park then go through Glacier National Park in the northeastern corner of Montana before heading south to Yellowstone National Park. Instead, we headed south back to Gloria and Barney’s house in Florence, Oregon. We left La Conner at 12:30 p.m. on the 9th and arrived in Florence at 9:00 p.m. on 5 cylinders instead of 6 (due to the broken rocker). I have to admit the car ran pretty darn good ...

... ein** w**tvoll** als d** and**e.

Auf Tipp von Gloria und Barney sind wir dann alle gemeinsam zu den Dünen hi** in d** Gegend gefahren um dort mit einem Sandbuggy durch den Sand rasen. Hi** sind die Dünen eh** wie ein groß** Freizeitpark, üb**all sind Leute auf Quads und in Geländewagen. Den Rest des Tages haben wir dann in d** wirklich sehr hübschen Altstadt und am Strand hi** v**bracht.

... around in I would say 40 degree weather looking for the free hot showers. Finally, I found them and to my surprise the shower was hot as the lady who directed to our campground said they would be. I went back to our little camp and told the rest of the gang they should definitely head over and take a shower. Oops, guess I took too long of a shower! There was no hot water left when they arrived. After packing up all of our gear, which is a ...

... She started galloping along with him…..until he reached the water. “Whoa”, she said, and made a sharp right turn. There is no way Wendell is going to make a water-lover out of this dog.

From the lighthouse, we drove a few miles south to a pullout where we could view the sea lions. There were hundreds on the rocks below the lookout. Some were in the water, but most of them were lounging on the rocks. The “aroma” was ...

Luca undid his seatbelt so we pulled into a car park and found we were at a diner with old american cars decorating it. Inside we sat at seats which were the boot (trunk) of a car. In the back room we found old fairground rides which you could still use. We loved it!

... and drove south through Washington, into Oregon. We passed through lots of bush area, hills, some fields of wheat, corn, vineyards, and then at Eugene we headed west through the hills to Florence, which is on the ocean. From here we will head south.

Nice day today-drove to Cape Perpetua and watched gray whales feeding off the coast all morning. Hiked over rough volcanic rock to some wild coastal features-the sea crashes wildly in to the black rock here and splashes up high into the air. A real show of nature's wild power and we were able to be a few feet away. Learned a lot about the gray whales at the visitors center, had a picnic lunch while watching them spout, then ...

... it's about a foot long and the width of a pencil. :D



Our next and final stop for the night (until our hotel, that is) was at the Heceta Head Lighthouse.



As we approached, the sun was going down, though fog was also rolling in so there wasn't a sunset. There was, however, a very neat effect of the beam of light from the lighthouse sweeping through the fog. At the parking area for the lighthouse trail, you could see a very neat historic ...

... and give the dogs some exercise. Pushed on after this stop up the road to Florence(another 50 miles). Patsy had done some research and we stayed at this lovely little RV park some 31/2 miles north of Florence. The park had sites that were gravel but each site had hedges on both sides which gave the feeling of some privacy. Had to do some shopping and we also took the dogs to the beach and we were able to let them run on the sand. Played ball with them and ...

We headed on over to Florence, on the coast of Oregon, because we had heard about the wild coast of Oregon being so fantastic and, we wanted to see something more than just the mountains. What a trip over here. We went through this great place called Sisters, thinking that it would be a small hick of a town. Far from it. They had made this town to look like the days of the old west - well sorta - fascades for ...