Thursday, we went from Eugene west to the coast at Roseburg and north along the coast. The Pacific should surely be one of the great wonders of the world. It takes my breath away whenever I see it for the first time. What a sight to behold. If you have not seen our pictures on Facebook, please check them out. It’s easier to upload many more on Facebook than this blog.
 

While driving through Cannon Beach, we saw a very interesting hot-glass studio. After speaking briefly with the owner, we decided to go back Friday morning to watch the guy in action. We spent the night in a beautiful park in Cannon Beach, caught up on email and Facebook and returned to the glass shop on Friday morning. We had a great time talking to the artists/owners and to the patrons (that would be Wallie, the glass nut talking to glass nuts) and enjoyed watching the glass action. 

After that we headed toward Portland and the “fruit loop” where allll kinds of things are grown. Nurseries, orchards, you name it, it’s all here. Tomorrow we are going to Mt. Hood and will have lunch in the Timberline Lodge. I have some structural questions for Cliff since there are some really interesting features to this old building. More to come on this subject.

When Becky Allen and I were here in 2007 we went on the ski lift and I can’t imagine what I was thinking when I agreed to do this form of madness, but it turned out to be a wonderful experience, even though Becky rocked the bench we were sitting on. I threatened to push her off if she didn’t quit. That had no effect. Good grief, I don’t like heights or anything even close to that kind of insane activity.

To add to my other phobias, we will come to a point where we have to cross over the Hood River on a mile-long bridge that is toooo narrow for an RV just to get to the Washington side of the gorge which has the most interesting sites to see. We are going back down the road in the morning to a fish hatchery. Becky and I found the hatchery very interesting.

There are so many wonderful and beautiful things to see on the Washington side of the Columbia gorge, but in a couple of days, we will get to Mt. St. Helens and maybe even Mr. Rainer. Of course, this time of year, many roads are closed because of the weather so we may have to see the mountains from a distance.

Forgot to mention that we had the second of our two Dungeness crabs for supper with a bottle of Washington Gewurztraminer. We bought this and a Riesling at a Wal-Mart a couple of days ago. It was under $6.00 a bottle and we buy it at home for over $10. Yeepee. The crab was great too.