Day 1 was nothing to write about, so I didn’t.  It consisted of packing and driving.  Period.

We left Issaquah in the late afternoon and arrived in Newport OR later that evening.  Our only stop of note was at the world famed restaurant R BBBB in Olympia…otherwise known as Arby’s.

Exciting….

Day 2 however started off with a bang.  We drove to the Bay Front area and toured the Wax Works wax Museum, Ripley’s Believe It or Not and the Underwater Garden, a small aquarium.  Yes, LSU hit the tourist trap circuit.

Below are some pictures from the Wax Works.

After completing our homage to American tourism, we drove south along Highway 101.  The sky was still fairly foggy, but occasionally the sun would poke out.

Next stop was some pretty coastline photo ops:

Next we stopped at the Sea Lion caves.  Nothing says Americana better then paying to see smelly sea mammals.

We also picked up some more good photo ops of more of Oregon’s lovely coastline.

Next, the Oregon dunes:

After dumping all the sand out of our shoes, we headed south to Coos Bay and ate dinner at Kum Yons Oriental food, which had a kind of non specific oriental food menu, but was priced very affordable, and surprisingly good.

Sadly my Cousin Kristy was out of town, so my intended mini reunion did not happen.

Because we were so relaxed and not moving very fast, we rolled into our hotel in Crescent City CA a little late.

Now, time for your humble author to take a warm bath and soak some tired muscles.

Tomorrow, we drive to Fort Bragg, via the giant redwoods, and hopefully meeting a DADL-OT cohort.

See ya.

LSU

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