Travel from South Beach to Seaside, Oregon

We drove our coach 125 miles, about three hours of driving, from South Beach, Oregon to Seaside, Oregon.

Here’s the map route, heading north:

Route

Interactive map, with potential stops marked:

Our bedroom with the slide-outs in; Paladin just sat in his bed while the slides were coming in. We store the steering wheel table, the bedroom air cleaner, and other stuff on the bed for travel:

Bedroom with slides in, and Paladin

Jenn bringing in the front passenger-side slide-out, via the switch on the side of the chair (Tiffin puts it there to help ensure the chair is moved forward before bringing in the slide, to avoid hitting it):

Bringing in the front passenger-side slide-out

And the front driver-side slide-out:

Bringing in the front driver-side slide-out

Leaving the campground:

Leaving the campground

Entering tsunami hazard zone; there are signs like this all the way up the coast:

Entering tsunami hazard zone

Newport:

Newport

Newport bridge:

Newport bridge

We enjoy seeing an instance of our favorite coffee stand, Dutch Bros Coffee:

Dutch Bros Coffee

Parts of the coast highway can be prone to slips; here’s the remnants of a previous slip:

Repaired road

Repaired road

The coast:

Coast

Lincoln City:

Lincoln City

Espresso in a fun building:

Espresso

Tiger:

Tiger

It’s marshmallow harvesting season!

Hay bales

Bridge near Tillamook:

Bridge near Tillamook

Tillamook Creamery; we would have liked to visit the world-famous Tillamook Cheese Factory again (we haven’t been since they built their new visitor center), but it didn’t work out this time:

Tillamook Creamery

An old smokestack:

Old smokestack

A nice house:

Nice house

Pronto Pup giant hot dog:

Hot dog

Mural:

Mural

We stopped for lunch at Lakeside Hideaway in Rockaway Beach:

Lunch stop

Menu:

Menu

Menu

I had a clam chowder:

Clam chowder

And we both had huge club sandwiches (with one of each of ours saved for leftovers) and tots:

Club sandwiches and tots

Back to our coach:

Back to our coach

Paladin waiting for us:

Paladin

Rock:

Rock

Tunnel:

Tunnel

Tunnel

Paladin keeping an eye on the Bluefire dash on my iPad:

Paladin and iPad

Seaside:

Seaside

Rope course:

Rope course

Our destination, Thousand Trails Seaside:

Thousand Trails Seaside

Checking in:

Checking in

North side drive:

North side drive

As usual for Thousand Trails, we parked our coach and drove our truck around to look for a site:

Our coach