We rode the bike south this time to Newport. We went to the Yaquina Bay lighthouse and climbed the skinny staircases to the top. It is well preserved & displayed with nicely kept grounds. We continued on to the bayfront area where all the touristy shops are located. Fishing & tourist boats also leave from this area. We walked onto a pier to watch fish from a tour being cleaned and spotted the couple from the RV park that we met Sunday.
We
walked the whole length of shops, etc and picked a restaurant for lunch. Unfortunately, when we looked at the menu
there was nothing that Terry wanted to eat so we left. We ended up stopping at McDonalds for lunch!
We
went to WalMart – frequent occurrence when you can’t carry much in the motorcycle
or store too much in the trailer – and came home. While I dealt with groceries and put ribs on
to boil, Terry got a nice campfire going.
After a great dinner enjoyed outside by the fire, we took a drink and
walked down to see the people who went fishing.
We chatted with them for a bit and called it a day.
May 14th – Wed
We
had another short drive today – just to the Portland area (Hillsboro) to see
Terry’s sister Cindy & family. On
the way we had to stop at the Chinook Winds casino for a late breakfast after a
small donation to the casino. We ended
up at the wrong Elks club – Beaverton rather than Hillsboro – but luckily it
wasn’t far to the correct place where we have stayed previously. The weather was very warm, maybe even hot to
locals.
We
rode the bike to Cindy’s and found Don – her dad – and Amy & Killian
(daughter & grandson) waiting for us.
Tim (husband) was home for a while from working in Alaska and was
resting after putting sod in the back yard today.
On
her way home from work Cindy picked up Papa Murphy’s pizzas (our treat for an
easy dinner) and we proceeded to catch up on news. We finally left just after 10. The bike wouldn’t start right away and
luckily I remembered Killian pressing buttons, one of which was the kill
switch.
May 15th – Thurs
We
are meeting Larry & Barb in Ocean Shores tomorrow and were going to stay
somewhere in between for tonight but again it was a short drive so we decided
to continue on. We stopped at WalMart in
Chehalis to buy gloves and hot dog fixings as Barb has brush to burn and hot
dogs make sense. We ran into Leonard
& Mary Edlund who parked beside us in VVV a year ago and then bought a park
model. They live in Randle which is a
small town about 45 miles away. I am
always amazed when we see people in places where none of us “belong”.
We
stopped at the police station in Ocean Shores to fill out a permit to park on
Larry & Barb’s lot. We decided to go
to the Elk’s lodge to see if we could fill our water tank (one of the projects
for Larry is to fix some vandalism to their water supply) and ended up deciding
to stay in the Elk’s RV lot for the night.
Of
course we now had to take the bike for a visit to the local casino. For a change we got to play a long time and
Terry didn’t lose his allowance. We went
into the Elk’s lodge when we got back to see if we could still get dinner but
it was 7:20 and dinner was done at 7. We
had a drink and talked with one of the members who was here when we first
arrived. I made a late dinner and we
crashed.
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