Canada Trip Day #4

Day 4 was sunshine & blue skies!  Chris & I were up early and went for a walk to get some coffee.  We saw a lot of trucks hauling lumber  - a lot.  And we continued to see them for the rest of our trip.

 

We started off slow this morning - heading only a few miles down the road to an Air & Space Museum.  Julie got a nice photo of our crew driving in...

 

 This museum holds the Spruce Goose - a massive plane built by Howard Hughes.  It was so large - I couldn't even begin to get a full photo of it.

The guys loved checking out all the air and space stuff.  Some of the things we saw - Chris knows about through his job - so it was interesting to see them live.

We were at the museums for a few hours. Some of us took a break. Some of the others didn't want to leave...

 We did manage to get back on the road. We are still inland a ways - so we saw some farming.  A little different than our coastal drives.

 A nice pit stop in the woods

 Lots of bridges - every day we passed over a few

 Another pit stop - this time at the Tillamook Cheese factory.  It was pretty interesting watching them sort and package all the cheese.

 Then we took another pit stop - this time for some wine tasting.  Some cheese earlier in the day, and now some wine.  Too bad we didn't have them together...

 More photo ops for the cars :)

 And we are back on the coast

 More quaint seaside towns

 We took another pit stop - this one for a coastal photo op.  Yay!  We had missed it on Day 1 - so I was happy to get this photo.

 Photo of the Phaeton - and a group photo courtesy of Julie!

 

Our friends - Ray & Julie

 We did manage to make it to the hotel that night in Astoria, OR.  Rather than get back in our cars and drive downtown, we decided to order pizza, salads, etc and chill out on their beautiful property.

 Dinner!!

 What a view!!

 Chris was continuing to have teeth problems.  Fortunately, we had two dentists on our trip.  So they gave him a working over and he started to feel much better!!

 The rest of the photos are taken from Julie's camera - so much clearer!

 We couldn't believe we had this beautiful view from our hotel.  So lucky and what a wonderful way to end our day!

Canada Trip Day #3

Day 3 our of trip started out cloudy and cool.  Pretty common to have a marine layer in this area.

 We stopped by some antique shops - but it was a Monday, so most were closed

 We took some nice photos of the cars though :)

 One shop was open at least

 We did get some amazing coastal pictures though.  The low fog really made the photos!

 We stopped at a lighthouse to do some sightseeing and to take more photos!!

 The guys are always goofing off.  Made us laugh though - a Lot!!

My friend, Julie, got this great photo of Chris trying to put seaweed down Ray's back...

 We did hike up to this lighthouse.  It was a good hike - which we all enjoyed, after sitting in the cars so much.

 We got some great photos from up there.  The bridge that we parked near is way down there on the left...

Then it was time to get back on the road again

 We stopped for lunch in a cute seaside town

 The food was delicious, and the bartender would play the bottles...  a very neat tone they made.

 The cove across the street from the restaurant has year round whales living in it.  We saw plenty of spouting - but we didn't see any whales breach.

 A 'new' car had trouble starting.  So our '37 Phaeton helped them along by giving them a jump. 

 On the road again...  Our friend Julie took this cool photo of our car.  Love it!

We had dinner on the rooftop of this beautiful hotel.  (Thanks Julie for the photo).  Another good good day!!

We decided to only take 2 cars to dinner - so a group of us piled in the Phaeton!

 Rooftop dinner!

 The guys causing trouble again...

 Another stop - this time for ice cream!!

 Good treats - and a... monkey??  Yep!  His name was Elvis and he hangs out at the little diner by day and goes home with his family every night.  (hard to get a good photo, since the glass reflected back)