Sights and Activities.

We did little planning for this trip yet saw a wide variety of things. We purposely skipped some things if we had already seen them on the trip such as the other aquariums available along the way.

Following is a list of links to photos of the sights and activities along the way:

We started with visiting nephew Jeff at Camp Ocean Pines, then along the California cost on highway 1 to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, visited the Monteray Wharf, across the Golden Gate Bridge, ate lunch in Sausalito, then over the tree covered mountains to Fort Bragg.

Leaving Fort Bragg highway 1 crosses back over the mountains to highway 101 where first drove through a tree, ate lunch in Garberville before heading on into the fabulous Avenue of the Trees filled with enormous redwoods. We spent the night in Crescent City where we took a tour of the Battery Point Lighthouse.

After three days of driving north in the large state of California we finally passed into Oregon, along the beautiful Oregon coast and on into Florence. Old Town Florence was a short walk from our hotel where we enjoyed dinner at MO's.

Driving from Florence along more of the Oregon coast we arrived at Tillamook to tour the richly stocked WWII Air Museum in the largest wooden structure in the world. The next morning we visited the Tillamook Cheese Factory then headed toward our friend's house in Washington.

First we stopped in Portland for lunch at a sidewalk cafe, then across the Columbia River an over to Yacold to the Boyle's house. They pointed out how close was Mt St Helens so we left their house a day early to expand our horizons knowing we'd return to the Boyle's a week or so later.

After visiting Mt St Helens we stayed at a hotel in Packwood and realized we were too close to Mt Rainier to pass that up. Boy were we glad we went to Mt Rainier because it was the landscape highlight of our trip.

We spent two days at our long time friends the Shepard's house in Wenatchee Washington.