We decided to take the coastal highway 101 from northern Oregon (Tillamook) to the bay area of San Francisco for a scenic drive and it was gorgeous! We stopped at an aquarium in Newport OR, Grayson got to go on a couple of choo-choo trains at a random train museum and then we stopped for a night in Gold Beach OR just above the CA border. The next day we got up and kept driving south through redwood forests and winding cliff-side roads until we got to wine country in Sonoma Valley. I neglected to think about the fact that Allyson has trouble with bridges, so the cliff-side driving (with no guard rails) for miles and miles didn't really sit well with her.
At the aquarium in Newport. Grayson loved the otters and sea lions, of course, but they didn't sit still for very long while swimming and playing so no good pics.
Sunset in Gold Beach OR. It was very cool for this former coastie to see all the stations along the coastal routes. It was also hilarious to hear Grayson yell "Ocean" every time he got a glimpse of the water (which was only 150 times over those two driving days). For some reason it kept getting funnier! :)
Of course he got to swim that night in the hotel pool, but his lips were shivering! The hotel clerk said the pool was a warm 80 degrees, but there is no way that it was 80. Maybe 75. Have to give the little guy credit, he stuck it out even though he was COLD.
Redwood forest time! It was one of the highlights of the trip for me. I could have spent weeks hiking through those forests. Just like the Oregon cliffs, my eyes screamed "sci-
fi" to the unbelieving brain. The forest we stopped to walk into was outside of Humboldt Bay, CA. The highway exit sign read "To the Avenue of the Giants". I've never seen anything like it.
This one was recently felled by a lightning storm...
On to a little bit of wine tasting! Grayson was full of energy and wanted to roam around at each of the vineyards...or maybe that's the way I imagined him to be as I stalled the day away...;)
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