Chicks, Chips & Boats

I will be there on Saturday but I do not know if Lee will be she has to babysit the granddaughter... we have a new grandson coming on Thursday.
 
Ian or Donna, call me in thee morning tiem....I beleve Ihave you hooked up at mbc the weekend for dockage 419 215 1607
 
Well, we're back. Got in late Sunday night.

Flew from Grand Rapids to Seattle the previous Friday. Met my Sis and Bro-in-law in Minneapolis on the way.

Stayed in Seattle and visited relatives until Sunday Noon, then went to Scappoose, OR and visited other relatives for awhile. Then drove to Cannon Beach, OR for Sunday night. Then drove down the Oregon coast to Yachats, OR for Monday night. Saw whales out of the hotel windows, wandered on the beach a bunch, etc.

Tuesday to Albany Or for my nieces wedding. Back to Portland to visit more relatives Wednesday. Sis and her husband went back to Iowa Thurs AM, we headed back to the Oregon Coast. Started in Waldport, OR, stayed Thurs night in Brookings, OR, Friday night in Fort Bragg, CA, and Sunday night in San Francisco.

Highway 101 and 1 the entire way. First time my wife's ever seen a Redwood tree or been any farther south than Florence, OR.

She was a little disappointed with Fisherman's Warf, but really enjoyed the Redwoods and Coast.

Figure we drove a little over 1000 miles. Not bad at all, but was getting cramps in my brake leg on Highway 1 trying to make good time through some areas......:sifone:

Forgot how nice it is to have people pulll over for you to go by.....

Isn't Florence at Honeyman Park where they have the giant sand dunes?
My uncle used to give the first cousin to the bottom on a sand dune a quarter. It was worth is to see the rest of us choke on sand when we did a face plant in the dune. :)

He owned property at Yaquina Bay, right between Hwy 101 and the ocean. We used to have a blast there.

I love flying out of Portland. Take off and go up the Columbia River Gorge. It was full of giant Douglas Firs, that were waiting to be floated farther down the river. They kept getting smaller and smaller until they looked like tooth picks. It only took me three hours to Chicago, then two hours to Tampa.
 
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Isn't Florence at Honeyman Park where they have the giant sand dunes?
My uncle used to give the first cousin to the bottom on a sand dune a quarter. It was worth is to see the rest of us choke on sand when we did a face plant in the dune. :)

He owned property at Yaquina Bay, right between Hwy 101 and the ocean. We used to have a blast there.

Yep, the salmon were running too.
 
Yep, the salmon were running too.

Dad claimed the last time he went fishing with uncle Ron at Newport, they caught so many salmon the Pacific Ocean dropped two inches. :26:

Mom said the first time she and dad drove down Hwy 101, dad wasn't impressed with scenic Depot Bay. He told mom he could stand on a rock, and pizz across that little bay.:)
 
Dad claimed the last time he went fishing with uncle Ron at Newport, they caught so many salmon the Pacific Ocean dropped two inches. :26:

Mom said the first time she and dad drove down Hwy 101, dad wasn't impressed with scenic Depot Bay. He told mom he could stand on a rock, and pizz across that little bay.:)

Watching the Coast Guard go through the inlet when it's real rough there is way cool......
 
Wayne, have a safe trip to N.Y. Bet it feels great to be truckin again....:driving: I love driving cross country! I have driven to Houston, Pittsburg, Marco Island, Bowling Green (KY), & Fort Wayne to name a few.
Think of us trouble makers when your passing thru....it may take the Whole state...........:biggrinjester:

I lose count of how many times I've gone across the country. I've lived in Florida or South Carolina most of my life, and mom is from Portland, Ore.

Mom and dad are driving here to Deland today. :)
 
Watching the Coast Guard go through the inlet when it's real rough there is way cool......

The coast guard has a rough seas training base at Astoria. Dad was stationed at Astoria when he was in the Navy. I asked him how frieghter made it over the Columbia River Bar when the weather was nasty. He said they didn't. There would be dozens of freighters at anchor in the Pacific, and dozens more waiting in the Columbia to get in the Pacific Ocean.

I think I read there are more ship wrecks at that bar, than any other place in the world. Some bad Ju Ju.:ack2:
 
Watching the Coast Guard go through the inlet when it's real rough there is way cool......

Those old 41 foot cutters looked like surfboards coming down those waves. People who say they love the rough, have never crossed the Columbia River Barge.
 
Speaking of Bowling Green Kentucky, dad said the prettiest girls were from Bowling Green. That was before he joined the Navy, I think the only place he had to compare it to was Beckly, WVa,:(

I always said the prettiest girls lived in Gooding, Idaho. :)
 
Bowling Green Ky,.....She must have been in a Vette.......:drool5:
My dad is the cocky captain in the middle.....:sifone:
 

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Ian and I got married the first weekend in August in 1990. However no one missed boating, not even us. Friday night the rehearsal party was at our dock on Lake St Clair, the Saturday wedding was not till 6 PM and Ian and his buddies took the out of towner's out on the lake, Sunday our boat was on the wall at Metro Beach where we had a barbecue for friends and family. The wedding itself was still a formal affair, we just jammed in a lot of boating stuff the rest of the weekend, we even took our honeymoon in Dec. did not need to go anywhere in August. A few years after that we had a run on Saturday daytime summer weddings, we were invited to like 5, we only made it to the ones we were closest to. Graduation parties are happening now, fortunately for us they are all on our small lake and we only go if we planned on being in town, we send money either way so no one seems to care that much if we are a no show, but weddings are a bit different.

It was August 1990 that my ex wife decided I should take leave. I think it was something to do with the suarey we had that weekend with cooking a tuna I'd caught. I remember we were deciding who was gonna get the beer. My older brother said he was the drunkest, and deserved a DUI the most, so he'd go. None of the rest of us argued with him. The ex didn't see the humor in all us drunk guys grilling tuna. She rarely drank. :)
 
Yes Brian we are, it's to much for us to leave in the morning if we want to get there early so we are leaving here around 4 on Friday and putting in at Monroe. We plan to overnight in the MBC (if they let us) then head over to the Hole are 10:30. .

I can't believe what you northerners will do to go boating! I live a half mile from a boat launch on the St Johns River, which runs about 200 miles north to Mayport, then into the Atlantic Ocean, or I can trailer 2o miles and launch at Datona, and go out Ponce Inlet into the ocean. Here is a guy I know surfing at Ponce Inlet. He got bitten last year by a shark................twice!
 

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Bowling Green Ky,.....She must have been in a Vette.......:drool5:
My dad is the cocky captain in the middle.....:sifone:
I think dad was mining coal in Bowling Green. I don't think he rode in many Vettes. Mom asked him the last time they were here how he got to Kentucky. Dad didn't remember, he said he must have gotten a ride with somebody. Dad bought his first car just before he shipped out to Pearl Harbor. :)
 
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