Mike in "Retirement"!
Wednesday, May 25, 2005
Washington Journey
May 13-25...Yes, we are a bit tardy on updating the blog- we have been busy with the grandkids! We had a good time at Ocean Shores on the WA coast. The kids waded in the water even though it was 50 something degrees outside and the wind was blowing. We had a nice campsite and had camp fires each nite - Mike had his "first" s'more! Can you believe that? On the 18th we moved to a park called Tall Chief out of Fall City, Wa. It's close to the family and we are nestled in the trees. We went to the Seattle Aquarium with the kids yesterday. They had fun touching the fish and seeing all the different kinds. The weather has been very raining but today it is beatiful and 80 degrees. We also had a wonderful brunch at the home of the Seattle Presidents Club Lead (Lily & her husband, Dave). It was great to catch up on everything and as always we enjoy visiting with other people....not that we are tired of each others company yet but.....well you get the picture! Speaking of pictures, our camera malfunctioned so we are waiting for HP to send us another one so no pictures for awhile. I do have a couple to put on today - one of the grandkids at the beach horseback riding and the other of Mike showing you what he is doing on retirement!!!! I will be going to California to my brothers for a week and then we will be heading east on Jun 5th, working our way to Montana.
Thursday, May 12, 2005
May 8-12.....We are ending our stay at our last stop in Oregon. We are at a town called Seaside, which is where the Lewis and Clark Expedition set up & boiled sea water to obtained salt to dry their meats for the winter at Fort Clatsop & their return trip. This year marks the bi-centennial of their arrival at the coast. Yesterday we toured Fort Clatsop and saw many artifacts & a movie about their complete expedition. We then crossed the 4 mile bridge from Astoria, Or. to Washington. From there we went a little further and stopped at Cape Dissapointment Sate Park where we hiked 1.5 miles roundtrip (uphill) to Cape Dissapointment (yes, you guessed it, another) Lighthouse. It was a beautiful view of the Columbia River and Pacific Ocean! A couple miles from there we stopped at Cape Head Lighthouse! While looking at these lighthouse we saw 2 "tall ships" coming into the area. We stopped at the small town where there were docking and got a closer look. The one ship, the "Lady Washington" was used in the movie, "Pirates of the Carribean". The crew was dressed in period costumes and flew an America flag representing the 13 colonies. Today we are going to see "Tillomock Lighthouse" which is on an island. This is one lighthouse we will not be going in, at least not yet (it's used to house "remains"). Even though it has rained for 2 of the days we have been here, we have managed to see alot. Tomorrow we are off to Washington to meet Tim, Micheala and grandkids for a long weekend on the coast! Unfortunately rain is in the forcast -- we are in the Pacific Northwest in May, what should we expect?
Saturday, May 07, 2005
More of Oregon Coast
May 5-7....We are now parked outside Newport, OR and are only about 15o yds from the Ocean. We can hear the waves crashes at night! We took a walk on the beach and found a large (8in) purple starfish - first time for that. We don't have starfish on the TX coast - at least not that we've seen. The coastline in OR. is different than any we've seen...it seems more rugged and untouched. We took in 2 more Lighthouses - now seeing 6 of the 9 on the OR. coast. It's very interesting to see how they operated and better understand how they were used in the past. Many are still used so we were able to see them in operation. Newport also has a historic bay front and beach front that we explored - no shortage of gift shops and resturants! Tomorrow we move on to our last stop in OR. - Seaside!
Tuesday, May 03, 2005
Oregon here we come!
May 1-3....We are staying in a nice RV Park in Lakeside, OR, overlooking Tenmiile Lake. We have visited 3 Lighthouse in OR.- 2 on rivers where they meet the ocean and Heceta Lighthouse, which is on the Pacific Ocean and one of the most photographed. The Sea Lion Caves was the highlight today. We took an elevator down 200ft to a cave that opens up to the ocean. There were many, many Stellar Sea Lions on a hug rock in this cave. They are VERY loud - hence where they get their name "Lion". From the cave there was a lookout to the Heceta Lighthouse (one of the photo's attached). Once we got out we walked to a sea lion lookout where we saw at least a hundred sea lions beached and several others in the water. The first stop we made this morning was at a lookout just north of were we are staying - here we saw some migrating grey whales. We spent some time with the binoculars watching them blow and come up out of the water. Tomorrow is a day of rest!
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