Pacific City 7/18/07

I did finally agree to visit Thousand Trails for 2 nights. The free gifts made me do it and we were in the area anyway. So we drive West from Tillamook and see the very short light house at Cape Mears. Great drive but when the road sign says "secure your load" you might get a clue.

Seaside Oregon , 7/17/07

You have to stop at the cheese factory in Tillamook for the free cheese samples and ice cream. So we are on our way to Seaside and of course make stops for anything we like. This traveling without kids can really be nice, oh we do miss the kids in case they are reading this. We go shopping and look around at whatever we want to.

Tillamook Oregon, 7/16/07

We spent a week on the Oregon Coast in the condos from 7/6/07- 7/13/07. Now we came home, took care of some business and off we go again. This time we drive the 30 miles to Spirit Mountain Casino for lunch. You know my wife and I like this Vacation stuff. We head to the buffet and enjoy a long lunch only to meet friends and of course a Winnebago couple who use to have a '72 Super Chieftian once. Now they have one of those "newer" Winnebago's. We share stories, they had seen Wilbur in the parking lot and thought how clean it looks. Anyway after a good amount of time we head farther West to the Coast. This time we turn North towards Tillamook. We stop along the way to enjoy life and finaly pull into a very quiet RV place at the Tillamook Airport. Now you might think this would be noisy but we only saw 1 plane take off out of the 2 nights we spent there. OK $5.00 a night was the reason we(I) stopped but really a nice place. http://www.potb.org/rv-park.htm

Oregon Coast Day 6 - 6/29/07

Left the Casino and drove a short way to the Cooks Chasm pull out. We really fell in love with this place on the way down South. Had breakfast here and enjoyed the view. Back to Lincoln City with stops for whatever we wanted to see. You can see Wilbur in the background waiting for us.

Oregon Coast Day 5 - 6/28/07

We drove back to Florence where we checked out the old town. Filled up with gas, I don't know what I hate worse, the full holding tank or the empty gas tank... Hung around the town and took life easy before driving back (it is almost 1 mile from town to the three rivers casino) for the night.

Oregon Coast Day 4 - 6/27/07

We started the day with a full holding tank, yuck. OK so the gauge doesn't work for the holding tanks yet but when things are full you know it. So we decided to pull into the PAY RV Park. Sometimes things like a working toilet are needed and since the RV park is only 1 year old we paid end enjoyed the showers and cable TV, WIFI and all. This was Wilburs first real RV park and I think he liked it, I know my wife and I did. These pictures are of Shore Acres and Sunset Bay State Parks.

The Oregon Coast Day 3 6/26/07

After one night in the 3 Rivers casino in Florence Oregon we drove towards Coos Bay. Not very good Ocean views from Florence to Coos Bay so we mostly drove right to the State Parks we wanted to see, Sunset Bay and Shore acres. These are "must see" if you are in the area. After a great day of seeing things we like we pulled into the Mills Casino for the night of FREE camping.

A week on the Oregon Coast day 2 - 6/25/07

We left the Chinook Winds Casino in Lincoln City and headed South on 101. For breakfast we stopped at Boiler Bay State park. This has been a great place to watch for whales and this day was good too. My wife and I made coffee and toast while we watched a few whales. After breakfast we traveled on and stopped at a few places. One great find was a placed called Cooks Chasm. This was just a wide spot in the road but very nice trails down to the water. Another great place we stopped was the Heceta Light house. Somehow we have taken an interest in light houses this year and try to tour them when we can. Stayed for lunch and then on to the Casino in Florence. Another FREE night at the Casino gravel lot. We did sign up for the players card and got $5.00 of free play on the slots. I ran my $5.00 up to about $7.00 before moving to the video poker where I ran it up to $0.00. My wife ran her free money up to $8.00 and cashed out. I guess she knows when to quit.

A week on the Oregon Coast June Day 1--6/24/07

Since I first had "Wilbur" towed home 3 years ago I had plans of spending lots of time on the Coast. Well with the recent changes in our lives my wife agreed to start with one week and see how it goes. One big thing I did was to scub out the fridge. With parts from #230 I made the fridge look real good and it worked real good. We left home after lunch on Sunday and drove to Lincoln City. A short time later we arrived. A kite festival was going on. Lots of people, so we shopped in the factory outlet awhile. My wife can really shop. They we drove to the D Lake state park on the Beach where the most people fly. I bet we were there for 4 hours watching kites, taking walks and of course eating and relaxing. Then when we got tired we drove to the local Casino for the FREE parking in the RV lot.