Wed 7/4/12 - Oregon and Washington Coast

Yesterday, Janie and Brad took me to the coast.  It was a lovely day to spend the 4th.

The Goonies house, Astoria, OR

First we went up to Long Beach, WA.  It is a 26 mile long highways that runs right on the beach.  We didn't get to drive on it, but there were cars rollin up and down it while we were there.  I wish we could've driven it, but the spot where we entered was closed, and we didn't want to drive around looking for another one.  We had a nice lunch there, and we played some music and napped a little too. The water is super cold there, so the swimming was definitely out of the picture, even for a Minnesota boy like me.

After Long Beach, we traveled back over the HUGE bridge to Astoria, OR.  Astoria has been the setting for such films as: The Goonies, Free Willy, Kindergarten Cop, and Teenage Mutan Ninja Turtles III.  We was the goonies house, haystack rock (where they matched up the map, the road that the jerk in the car made the brother fly into the woods on the tiny bike was the road up the haystack rock), and the school where Kindergarten Cop was filmed.  It was cool, but I felt like a major tourist.  People are living in the house, and they were getting ready to leave.  I felt like I was prying.

Haystack Rock, Canon Beach, OR

Anyways, it is extremely beautiful, AGAIN, and I recommend it for anyone.

I am gonna a hop a bus and go play one of the best disc golf courses in the country.

BYE,

Bridge between Astoria, OR, and Washington State.

JOE