I whined and grumped and moaned about giving up my Sundays to work. I’m still trying to figure out how I can get out of working that sliver of weekend all summer. The silver lining is that I can take off on glorious weekdays to drive places like this:
With Mom as my copilot and the dog in the back, how could this not be an awesome way to spend a Tuesday? The Pelican Brewery in Pacific City provided some stellar lunch and we rounded out the afternoon scoping out good campsites at Cape Lookout and enjoying a wine tasting at the Blue Heron in Tillamook.
The Three Capes Scenic Loop in Tillamook County has some of the best the Oregon Coast can offer. It’s set back from the main highway so it’s easy to feel like you’re in on a secret. A secret very clearly marked by road signs, but hey, we’re talking spirit rather than letter here. Sand Lake for the ATV enthusiast, or for the pure weirdness of seeing dunes in a coastal forest:
The drive loops from Tillamook out to Cape Meares, south to Cape Lookout and finally past Sand Lake and into Pacific City with Cape Kiwanda easily visible from the public beach access by the brewery.
There’s a lighthouse, plenty of places to hike, good camping, stunning views and great places to eat at the end of the loop. And when you get to take a weekday to enjoy it, it feels like you’re getting away with something.
Back at work today, it’s been pouring. I’ve had to execute two freakishly large spiders and try to exorcise the electrical demon living in my work dump truck. I swear there is a poltergeist in that machine. Later there’s a birthday to be celebrated at the Rogue and finally a little indulgence of my newest crafty fixation: origami bonsai. My sister accused me of being a nut when I described (maybe with a tinge of mania) the wonder of folding flowers out of paper. But they’re pretty, dammit. I figure as long as it’s entertaining, long live the craft distraction du jour. And yes, as I’ve admitted before, I have the attention span of a goldfish.
Posted by kj wuest on May 19, 2010 at 6:47 pm
Yearn…yearn…I wish to be breathing the air on the coast!!! Thanks for taking me along, even if I am still sitting here in the family room! Ok, wee tinge of mania is agreed–but they are beautiful and you were always good at folding paper into German Stars and frogs, so why not flowers? hugs to you…