Beautiful Sights and Sleepless Nights

Here I am sitting at the Best Western Guest Laundry room waiting to put my load of clothes in the dryer :) It's about 11 pm and Tim and Myra are sound asleep. I am grateful for wireless internet so that I don't have to sit here bored! Tim and I are also very very VERY grateful that we have a bed to stretch out on and sleep tonight. I would have written a post yesterday telling you about our day but since Walmart parking lots don't have wireless internet I could not. Yes, you read correctly. Apparently all of Oregon's hotels were completely booked -- UNBELIEVABLE -- so our little family joined the handful of RV's already parked at Walmart and spent the night in our car. Not the best sleep but sure is a great story :)

Here's a quick re-cap of the last two days....

I was pleasantly surprised to find that the continental breakfast at the motel we stayed at in Aberdeen included a "make your own waffle" station! :) I was so excited.



After breakfast we headed south on the coastal highway. Check out these flattened slanty trees :) They grow this way due to the high winds that come off the ocean - weird - when we took this picture it was not windy at all.



Later in the morning I was woken by Tim to see a massively long bridge. It was so long you could barely see where it ended from the beginning. Turns out we crossed the border into Oregon halfway along the bridge.





Taking a short walk on Canon Beach.



We had lunch at a hot dog stand in a small city just past Canon Beach - Tim had sauerkraut on his hot dog - I was too chicken to try.

Now I forget what town it was in - but this sight caught our attention and we decided to check it out.



It's an old airplane hanger that had been used to hold blimps airplanes during the second world war. It was massive! We toured the inside which was filled with old and new fighter planes and other planes. Very cool.






This morning we ate breakfast at Rotten Ronnies since it was conveniently also located at the Walmart location :)



First thing we accomplished once we had travelled back from Eugene to Florence was to make reservations for our night tonight. I think our rejoicing at having a place to stay dominated conversation for at least 30 minutes. :) The scenery along this route is so beautiful! Sometimes we drive right beside the ocean and other times we're surrounded by trees - it's all gorgeous.





Baby Myra is a great traveler. She sleeps most of the time while we're driving. Today, we stopped for lunch in Bandon and Myra had just woken up from sleeping the past 2 hours. She was so happy! She squealed and "sang" for at least 45 minutes straight - I was starting to worry she would get a sore throat. :)

We are now in California at Crescent City. Our destination goal for tomorrow is San Fransisco. I'm looking forward to driving through the redwood forest :)

Anyways, I should join my sleeping family :)
Sweet dreams!




.... oh yeah ...saw a sign on the side of the road that made me giggle...it said "Why is the word abbreviation so long?" :)