Central Coast Oregon

Spent last night at Little Creek Cove in Newport, which was a nice section of mini dunes and beach break.

This beauty was on the walk to lunch. Hit Mo's seafood and then the Rogue Brewery for a tour.

My old man would love this

Cape Perpetua and a lone surfer taking advantage of the wind swell

This duck had a turkey neck jowel thingy

Hand picked

Olive found her long lost sister, Ruthie

Vistas from Cape Perpetua.  A must see if you are traveling through. We saw 2 gray whales!

Cape Foul Weather

Not too shabby

Found it... World's Largest Insect, the stick bug

Gone COASTAL

Lincoln City likes its kites

Sun just didn't want to come out

It also should have said "beware of the water, it's freezing!"

Portlandia

Weather aside, Portland is hot! It's mellow, semi urban, free spirited, and has gourmet food and beer at Value Prices. A big thanks to Lexi, Jacob, Jess, and Evan for showing us the ropes.

The Dexcom glucometer says its ok for Lexi to get down on some delicious cherry pie from the Honey Pot.

I'm a believer... Steph took down the Blazer at Cackalack's fried chicken.,, I opted for some Norwegian cuisine at Viking Soul Food.

From Mike Clark's video store... Apparently the biggest collection this side of the Mississippi

The Lovely Ladies

We hit up Vincente's Pizza and the Space lounge for some fun. The Space lounge has pirate night every third week... We may have to delay our departure

Got the Elvis Pressly. A big ole' biscuit with peanut butter, Nutella, and Banana... PDX, you and your craft ways will be missed! Off to the coast. I'm going to try real time on this blog thingamagigy.

Ps. We drove by Bikini Brew... Yes, a cute girl in a hot bikini brewing and serving coffee... To protect the guilty, I will not post a pic ( truthfully, I wasn't able to snap a shot in time).

Twin Peaks & Lewis and Clark

So I just finished watching David Lynch's Twin Peaks (circa 1992) and wanted to geek out on the old set. Short of the falls and the timber, nothing was the same. The Great Northern Lodge was now the Salish for example. Nevertheless, it still is a scenic destination.

Snoqualime Falls, aka Twin Peaks... I visited here 25 years ago. The Great Northern Hotel sat just to the left of the falls.

Big timber, opening credits to Twin Peaks

Double R diner, now Twedes cafe... Didn't try the coffee but the cherry pie was great!

Movie shwag

Lewis and Clark campground was s true surprise.  Although it looks like a turd...

Old growth forest at Lewis & Clark campground 

Watery goodness

Victoria BC

We spent the afternoon in Victoria and had a nice time.  Victoria was a nice change of pace from Vancouver... A smaller city feel, yet had some old world charm.

The hot corner outside of the Empress Fairmont Hotel.

Black cow, aka, root beer float 

BC or BRITISH Columbia... I laughed out loud when I saw this

Capital building that we napped upon

Back stateside at Deception Pass... Killer view!

Oops... I BUTCHART my pants GARDEN

Flowers et al.

Garden and such...

National treasure and what have you...

Ehh, take off hoser!

I'm pretty sure Canadians are the nicest people I've come across. Everywhere we went we were welcomed with warm, genuine smiles and conversation.

Japanese hot pot

Totem pole dancing

How cool!

Public Service Announcements galore for the Canucks

Found this one at the urinal....Whole heartedly disagree 

Biking in a circle

Vancouver is very modern metropolitan city. We wanted to stay closer to the action, but it was tough finding parking so we stayed 10 minutes outside of the city in a place called Burnaby.

We took our bikes on the skytrain into the city and began our tour at the waterfront.

I almost have the panoramic  feature mastered

Sweet whip

Pineapple 

Best key lime cheesecake ever found at Granville Island market 

Modern... Kinda like TJ

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