Awake: 7:10am Temp 48 sleep 6+ 24 early morning rain overnight @ Long Beach, WA.
We wait around for the sunshine to dry up the roads before leaving Anderson’s RV Park @ 9:35am. Nice travel day going south on US-101 to the town of Seaside, OR, arriving @ the visitor’s center big rig parking lot @ 10:25. Kathy checked with the Chamber of Commerce nearby for permission to leave our bus parked while we spend most of the afternoon touring on foot; it was no problem.
We walk the famous Promenade both ways + some of the back streets through town. You couldn’t ask for a better day for self touring; seeing Lewis & Clark’s salt making furnace was something we missed during our 1st visit in 1970 about (6) months before we were married. This town has really changed & grown; quite impressive with a full time population of 6200 increasing to 30,000 when the summer tourists arrive. We estimate we walked over (8) miles all totaled today.
Our breakfast was only a Kathy muffin so we lunch @ Fultano’s Pizza Place a few blocks from the famous Seaside turnaround. We sure let the pizza makers know that a mere (3) days ago, we had their pizza @ Fultano’s in Astoria & today it was just as good.
After walking through a few stores, we return to the Chamber of Commerce bldg & ask Doug if overnight parking is allowed for our bus. “No,” he replies but he did recommend an overnight parking lot just up the road that consistently has RV’s & trucks that park all night. Next we ask when their Rotary meets; Doug’s eyes lit up. “Tomorrow,” he says. “And by the way, on Friday we’re having our annual auction, so if you’d like to come to the meeting, it’ll be short & we’ll have boxed lunches." He also mentioned that a bunch of them will be coming early to do the setting up for Friday’s auction. Doug agrees to sponsor us & asks us to be there by (12 noon).
With our Suzuki still hooked up, it takes maybe (10) min to travel north on Roosevelt Drive to (12th) Ave & the parking area behind the Cinema. From here, we disconnect the Suzuki, drive (8) miles south to Cannon Beach & do some more walking around in town. Not near as exciting as Seaside but there are quite a number of cars parked along the streets & many people are out & about on this wonderful sunny day. We did get a few pictures of the famous Haystack Rock before heading back up the road + we make a quick stop @ Safeway for milk along the way.
Doogers Seafood Cafe was too tempting to ignore; only a few blocks from Fultano’s, why not double our gourmet dining & let these people know we liked their Long Beach, WA café also. For dinner, K & I share a regular oyster meal. I enjoyed it but Kathy wasn’t too keen on the oysters.
We start watching DVR movie: “Suspect” but cut it short by an hr due to someone’s not paying attention.
Thinking the temp will be OK tonight, I run the generator a mere 1.3 hrs, but for the 1st time; use an extra blanket on our bed just in case.
Lights out: 12:46am
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