May 18 – May 21: We cruised up the 101 with the first stop in Newport staying in South Beach Oregon State Park and had a side trip to Portland to attend a big Rasmussen family celebration for Rocky Kemper’s college graduation party (bummer, no photos). We did manage another side trip to Salem on the way back to Newport where I got to visit with a former Linfield roommate, Katy Trunt Unrien. So good to catch up!

May 21 – May 25: Moved the rig further up the coast to Nehalem State Park to check out the northern Oregon coast, see where Lewis & Clark wintered, check out Cannon Beach and Tillamook Air Museum housed in an old blimp building from WWII.

Looking from Devil’s Punch Bowl to Newport

Linfield room mate, Katy Trunt Unrien

Getting down to the beach!

Newport Bridge

Newport Bridge

Looking north from Devil’s Punchbowl

Yaquina Head & Lighthouse

Mussels in the tidepool

Yaquina Head

Yaquina Head near Newport, OR

Surprise! Another view of the Newport bridge with boats!

South Beach State Park

Beach view at Nehalem State Park

Fort Clatsop area where Lewis & Clark landed and spent winter of 1806

Fort Stevens near Astoria

Northern Oregon Coast

View towards Cannon Beach

Haystack Rock, Cannon Beach

Near Tillamook

Tillamook Air Museum

Could Tom have been an A7 pilot?

Hum, I think that canopy would crack that noggin!