Sunday, June 15, 2008

We left Tillamook River RV Park at 11:45am (GA Time.. 8:45 am PT). More beautiful scenery along the way, but cold when we stopped at a view point to look at the ocean and stretch our legs. Frank called his Dad to wish him a happy Father's Day.


As we came into the Ft. Stevens (Warrenton/Astoria Oregon) area we missed our turn and decided to find Ft. Clatsop to turn around. We stopped in the visitor's center there and enjoyed ourselves looking at the museum and we watched a movie about the area told by a Native American woman from the Native American point of view. Sometimes it turns out pretty good missing a turn :-D.


We went to Ft. Stevens State Park and checked in... we had to wait and see if they had a site for us. After a few minutes they said they had a site for us and sent us to site #182. People were still there... they had checked out and thought they had until 1 pm to leave. There were nice and it didn't take them long to move out of the site. The site is a pull-thru which tends to be a bit close to the road. Our arrival time was 3:30 pm (GA Time... 12:30 pm PT)


I heated up some veggie soup to go along with our sandwiches. I stood and looked out the kitchen window and Frank looked out from the window by his chair. A couple of sites down from us a family was tent camping... I think 3 kids and a dog along with the parents. The teen age girl was playing her guitar and her dad had a paper bag that had something in it that made a rattling noise... sorta like a tambourine. He danced around her Indian style as she sang a song and played her guitar.


There was a large family across from us... Frank thought Mexican, but I said the granddad looked Hawaiian and grandma looked like she was oriental mixed. They were a dozen or more of them. They were fun watching... Frank watched the kids real close as they kept throwing their playground ball near the truck. Grandma... she took pictures and pictures of everyone. Towards evening grandma didn't show herself very much... it was too cold. Grandpa brought her food. Grandpa was getting a bit tipsy by bedtime. When we went to bed they had Hawaiian music playing.


Who needs tv :-D


After dinner David called and wished his Dad Happy Father's Day. Frank called Sonja, but she wasn't home yet.


Then we went to the beach and saw what is left of a shipwreck... decided it was too cold to go on the actual beach... our view was from the parking lot :-D


In that short time we walked to the edge of the parking lot the seagulls did a bang-up job of decorating the truck :-)


We then went to the War Museum. Ft. Stevens was used during the War Between the States and both World Wars. We took the underground tour... the two tour guides, us two and a man were the tour group.. My kind of tour :-)


After the tour we sat in the truck and called Sonja.


Then we found the car wash... the truck did a lot of aahing ;-) Then we got gas in Warrenton (Oregon) for $4.79 a gallon.



I had a bit of a headache all day, so I added a couple of tylenol and a chlortab to my nightly pills. I fell asleep after hearing the first little bit of a Hawaiian song. I don't think Frank got much sleep... people cars and my snoring kept him awake.


We traveled 77 miles today plus sight-seeing.