Seaside, OR (May 15-31)

 We got a good spot at Seaside.  The spring here has been super rainy…so the ground is swampy, but what can you do.  I’m happy, as it is a corner spot and I like only having one neighbor and my craft area faces the more open space.  I’ve decided that Ed’s goal is to find a pizza place at every area we stay.  Here it is Fultano’s.  It is downtown and in the arcade, but it honestly is pretty good!  We discovered it is a local chain.  

We visited Ft Steven’s State Park and hiked from the fort to the shipwreck of the Peter Iredale.  It was a fun hike and we had a good time, saw a paraglider while on the beach, almost caught him! LOL!

 

We drove inland to Longview, WA because I had to have some bloodwork done to check on my kidney issues.  I had to stop and see the Nutty Narrows Bridge for squirrels!  Interesting concept…

We visited Ft Clatsop at Lewis and Clark National Park. 

Ed found out one of the local beaches was good for finding sand dollars, so off we went at low tide to check it out.  There were tons of them!  I stopped picking them up at 18, as Ed had to go and be all reasonable and ask me what the heck I was gonna do with all of them.  We also saw tons of people digging up razor clams.  I asked one lady and she showed me how it is done.  She said they were super plentiful right now and she had so many she wasn’t even sure what she was going to do with the ones she was getting…I could relate 😉  She had the most adorable Scottie dog and he was all about telling her where to find the clams!  It was cute!

We went to Girabaldi to ride the Coastal Sea Train.  It was really cute and fun.  The conductor told us that she found her ticket punch at a local estate sale, so it was an authentic punch!  She told me that each conductor had their own special punch with a shape that identified which conductor punched your ticket, I never recalled hearing that before, so it was a cool thing to learn about.  

We visited the Tillamook Air Museum.  It is a HUGE blimp hanger that has now been turned into a museum.  They have a Guppy outside that you can tour also.  It is a pretty neat place.  

Of course, we couldn’t skip the Tillamook Cheese Factory!  The last time we were in this area, they were closed while they updated the museum/factory tour area.  We got ice cream cones that were huge and delicious!

We visited Cape Mears Lighthouse and the surrounding area. Hiked a bit and found some letterboxes.