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Road Trip
West 2003
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Date:
Tuesday, August 5, 2003
Route:
» US-101 from Orick, CA to Beverly Beach, OR
Distance: 215 miles
Excursions: 18 miles
Trip Total: 2544 miles
Log:
In the morning, Jenn experienced running on the beach for the first time (sandy and lots of scrambling over rocks since the tide was in) and Rob took quite a few photographs. We packed up and headed north along the coast to Newport and Beverly Beach State Park.
We stopped along the way to walk on the sand dunes. The Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area covers a major portion of the southern Oregon coast, from Coos Bay to Florence. After battling the glare, we continued along Highway 101 to just north of Florence, where we played tourists at the Sea Lion Caves, and took some photos of Heceta Head Lighthouse, perhaps the most photographed lighthouse in Oregon.
On the road again for a few of hours to Beverly Beach State Park, about eight miles north of Newport. We met up with Kevin and Colleen, Rob's friends from Kalamazoo, Michigan. We had a laugh over our almost-matching red Subaru Foresters.
Kevin and Colleen were among the group that planned the weekend getaway in the ocean-front cabin in Westport, Washington. They had driven out from Madison, Wisconsin and were tooling around the Pacific Northwest before heading off to Washington for Thursday's gathering.
We all headed off to Newport to visit the Rogue Brewery for some dinner. And some Rogue beer, of course, which is available in Austin, we were pleased to discover on our return. (Favorites include Dead Guy Ale and Shakespeare Stout.)
We lighted a fire after we got back to the campground and longed for some marshmallows before hitting the sleeping bags for the night.
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