Seattle Patriot

We left Saturday afternoon, meeting up with Carmen downtown after she finished at work to caravan down to Portland. With our trusty two-way radios we were able to stick together, share miraculous music finds, and search out the world’s most difficult Dairy Queen to find on our way. We stopped in Portland to meet Carmen’s parents, return their car to them, find out about their exciting European travels (from which they had just returned), and have a delicious pizza dinner. We got back on the road, minus one car, and continued on to Tillamook. After a scenic sunset drive toward the coast, we arrived at Carmen’s family’s “cabin,” which turned out to be a cute little house with room to sleep, cook, eat, play games, and even had a wood burning stove that we put to good use. We took a brief trip into “town” where we purchased provisions for the meals we’d cook for each other, we returned for games and settled in for the night.