Jaunt to the Coast

Here are a few photos of our trip to the Oregon Coast this past month. We left Boise on Wednesday and stayed at Emily’s parent’s house that night. Then on Thursday we left in the morning for our first stop; the famous land of cheese…Tillamook!


From a sour past experience where they ran out of cheese curd (the ONLY reason I go to Tillamook) I entered the facility and made a bee-line to the curd isle. Success! I stocked up! Who knew you could freeze curd? We toured the factory and ate Tillamook lunch, ice cream, and plenty of cheese. It was heavenly. In one of the photos you’ll notice Grant all gooped up in orange sorbet. He couldn’t have gotten more of the stuff on him if it was poured over his head. Instead, the sorbet fell on the ground and he slipped and rolled in it. It was everywhere!


Then it was off to try the local seafood and fruit stands. They were a let down. All out of crab and their peaches stunk! Lori really fell for the peach sales pitch and bought a bag full. Then it was off to Lincoln City and Gleneden Beach. Of course along the way, we stopped in at the local stand for fresh homemade apple dumplings in Hemlock. We ordered 4 to go to enjoy at our condo that night. Lori tried the peach thing again, yet another downer, but she said it was getting better. We advised her that peaches are not in season and we should refrain from trying a peach at each stand we pass en route. She concurred. We made it to Gleneden Beach which is about 5 miles south of Lincoln City. We were a bit early for our check in at the Worldmark resort so we opted to check out the place and see the beach. It was kind of drizzly outside thus our beach tour lasted about 15 minutes before we headed back to the lodge for shelter. After we checked in to our massive 3 bedroom condo (thanks mom and dad), we all went swimming in the heated pools. Grant hadn’t been swimming since our neighborhood pool shut down for the season and really enjoyed getting back into the pool to show nana and papa that he could swim all by himself. We cleaned up and went out for a nice seafood feast at the local hot spot Mo’s. Their clam chowder is the best. There was a mix of orders ranging from chowder, clams, scallops, fish and chips, and….beef ribs. Who knew the Oregon Coast was famous for their ribs? (Their not.) It’s sacrilege, that’s what it is. Anyway, we headed home and picked up some Haagen-Dazs ice cream to top our dumplings. Ymmm! Friday, we went to the outlet mall in Lincoln City. Not very exciting, but a must do when on the coast apparently. They have these malls all along the coast. I wouldn’t call them outlets, as they are nothing different than the regular stores. From there we left Lincoln City and went further south to Newport. Our next lodging was in Depoe Bay, about 5 miles north of Newport. We found the famous bayside street of Newport. We saw the sea lions sleeping on the docks of the harbor and ate lunch overlooking them. We walked through the shops along the drive and got some salt water taffy and other unhealthy treats. By then, we were famished. We headed back to the condo, yet again a 3 bedroom unit facing the ocean. It was amazing how close the waves came to the rocks below our unit. That night the waves were very intense and if you had the patio doors open, it was quite loud and dramatic. At night, the resort has a spotlight so you can see the waves hitting the rocks. We decided to have dinner at the condo that night. On the way to Newport, we stopped at a roadside shack about 1 mile north of Taft which is basically the little area inside Silitz Bay where Mo’s is. A guy sells fresh seafood for a few hours a day and I picked up 2 huge Dungeness crabs, much to the dismay of the woman-folk. Apparently, this seafood stuff is for the birds. So we cooked up the crabs, BBQ’d some huge New York steaks and had baked potatoes. It was a great feast. Then on Saturday we ate a breakfast at the clubhouse and headed for home via Salem, Oregon. It started to rain that morning, so we picked the weather perfectly.






It was a lot of car time and we are glad to be done with that for a while. Enjoy the photos!