Dinner on the ocean

Monday, July 7 - We finally reached the Pacific Ocean! Very exciting to make it here -- a milestone. Since we didn’t leave Portland till after 4pm, we wanted to make sure to get dinner in before it was too late. We took a scenic drive to Cape Meara outside of Tillamook. We stopped in this little town called Oceanside, and put in our names at Rosanna’s Café. We started to talking to a couple who came out of the restaurant, and they asked where we were from. When Sandy said she was from Cincinnati, the guy said, “No one is from Cincinnati.” Then he smiled -- “I’m from Hamilton.” We got talking about schools, and he said that he went to Miami of Ohio. I said, “I went there, too!” Such a small world.

We did notice there was some kind of rivalry going on in this little town because there were several signs in the front windows of the houses that said “Boycott the Anchor Inn” and “You Won’t Find Me the Anchor." Boy, there’s definitely a story there. By the way - the Anchor is closed. Hmmm. We sat in the window at Rosanna’s. I got grilled Halibut, and we watched the sun set from there. Then it was back in the car to find a place to stay. We ended up in Lincoln City. Not nearly as far as we wanted to get , but we wanted to spend a little more time in Portland. We figured we could make up time in a couple of days, since we weren’t going to be able to drive down the California coast after Monterey due to the fires around Big Sur.