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August 06, 2004
Day 5: On the way to Portland.
After an interesting political discussion with our hosts this morning, we left heading north on the 101. It was raining on and off all day, which only added to the beauty. The sky was moody all day making the ocean appear that much darker and more ominous. Most of the road winds atop cliffs many hundreds of feet above the ocean. We stopped a number of times just to gaze at its majesty.
We made a slight detour a little further north to visit the Tillamook Cheese Factory in Tillamook. Got some free cheese, ate grilled cheese sandwiches and cheese biscuits and toped it off with some fresh Tillamook ice cream. We are both now full of cheese. I'd also say we were skirting the fine line before you hit too much of a good thing.
We swung South next and visited the Spruce Goose. The museum was closed, but we got to walk around and look in all the many windows. There really is no way to describe how large it is, nor the disbelief in trying to imagine how it ever did fly. Under one of the wings of the Spruce Goose was a tiny little plane called the SR 71 Blackbird. Holy crap! Standing next to the SR71, which was far smaller than I imagined, was a surreal experience. I can still remember being young before it hadn't been officially declassified. A friend of mine had a blurry picture of one. His dad was in the USAF and had taken the picture from a refueling plane he was manning. You could just see a man with an all black opaque helmut. It was so exciting, yet there I was looking at one in a museum, next to WWII prop planes.
We'll be in Portland before long and meeting up with Anders, who I've never met in person. Should be fun.
Posted by wonko at August 6, 2004 06:35 PM
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