4.From Portland to Florence(OR) 3rd August 2007

Starting from this post i will try to add a google maps of the road. Let’s see… Perfect! Thanks google!
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It was the last day in portland, so we dediced to do a bit of Shopping, but first we did the breakfast at “Peet’s Coffee & Tea” : that’s really a nice place to have breakfast. Less Informal than Starbucks but very elegant. Our Shoppin spree involved many shops but most of the time we were at Abercrombie & Fitch (Gareth was astonished to find that he could wear “L” sized trousers. In Europe he is considered “XL” sized.). Remember: there are no sales taxes in Oregon, so buy buy buy !

Gareth note: i should have bought myself a Nintendo DS lite! Darn!

We had to visit a friend of a friend of Ines in the suburbs (i know, that’s a rather thin contact), but she wasn’t in her home when we went, so we headed toward the coast! After some miles we reached Cape Meares, near Tillamook (see the map). We had another meting with the Ocean after the sunny days of Seattle…and boy we were chilled No, really chilled, the weather was cloudy and the water was really cold.

More photos here!

It was funny to walk over the sand with our bare foots, Gareth even tried to enter the water… Sometimes when you try to look too cool, you end up looking a fool (proof here)

Well, it was nearly lunch time so we returned to tillamook where we refilled the car and asked informations about meal.

We were directed to “Mc Claskey’s Restaurant“. We had a fantastic lunch with lot of fish and then we had one big surprise: the desserts. The Waitress instead of a list of dessert, showed us the whole inventory. Of course we were not used to USA oversized portions, so we received one big plate of sweets each… Boy, we were stuffed! And the bill was low, we paid maybe 9 euros each. That’s maybe 12 dollars ? Amazing!

Toward Yaquina

Near Newport, we decided to stop at the lighthouse of Yaquina Bay. The Lighthouse is still active, albeit fully automatic, but there are guided visits inside (for free! uzzah!). The day was… perfectly foggy! After an exhaustive visit we went south some more to Florence, where we booked one giant sized bedroom for all of us in a motel called “silver sands”… Next step “The sands“… but that’s another story

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