It has been an interesting and wet trip. The weather indicators are that the weather will continue to bse "less than favorable" for the areas we had intended to visit. We experienced the NW Pacific storms with the rain and winds. Not bad but enough is enough! I easily get cabin fever so it was not going to be all that pleasant cooped up in a 28' (or 90') RV for me or Lou. So, we decided to turn the bus around and return to Spokane where the weather has been mild and overall, much better than OR of CA.
On our return trip, we stopped at the Cape Lookout State Park for a night. The Oregon State Parks are really nice to visit. The surf was quite active, to say the least! The beach is very flat so you have to beware of the sneaky waves that can quietly run up on the sand all the way to the dunes. This is even at low tide. One minute there is 50-75 yards of sandy beach, the next you could be ankle deep in COLD water with no warning! Perhaps that's why it's called Cape Lookout:)
The pics attached are hopefully in order from stormy afternoon to quiet morning after.
On the return trip, Lou visited quilt shops in Newport and Tillamook plus the Latimer Quilt and Textile Museum in Tillamook. We took the Washington side of the Columbia River route rather than the I-84 on the Oregon side on the way back. A very different look to the Columbia Gorge and really very pretty and curvy too. All journeys end eventually. This one concluded quicker than planned but was safe and got us to places we had not been before. Therefore, it was a successful journey after all.
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