· cat · food · map · RV · Thousand Trails · travel
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:
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:
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):
And the front driver-side slide-out:
Leaving the campground:
Entering tsunami hazard zone; there are signs like this all the way up the coast:
Newport:
Newport bridge:
We enjoy seeing an instance of our favorite coffee stand, Dutch Bros Coffee:
Parts of the coast highway can be prone to slips; here’s the remnants of a previous slip:
The coast:
Lincoln City:
Espresso in a fun building:
Tiger:
It’s marshmallow harvesting season!
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:
An old smokestack:
A nice house:
Pronto Pup giant hot dog:
Mural:
We stopped for lunch at Lakeside Hideaway in Rockaway Beach:
Menu:
I had a clam chowder:
And we both had huge club sandwiches (with one of each of ours saved for leftovers) and tots:
Back to our coach:
Paladin waiting for us:
Rock:
Tunnel:
Paladin keeping an eye on the Bluefire dash on my iPad:
Seaside:
Rope course:
Our destination, Thousand Trails Seaside:
Checking in:
North side drive:
As usual for Thousand Trails, we parked our coach and drove our truck around to look for a site:
