moldfarm

So we are all repaired, and I think we can now no longer call our honeymoon
a “low budget” honeymoon, thanks to Vera's leaking head (or head gasket). We
got our motor home back on Friday around noon. We decided to leave the
Seattle area as soon as possible. We can't thank Dan, Patty and Wes enough
for being so great to us. I'm sure their neighbors were having a heck of a
time keeping track of the 4 automobiles we had parked in front of their
house for the week or so we were there. I can't wait to hear about us in
their neighborhood watch bulletin.
As far as our car with the seatbelts that Luna thought were so
scrumptious, we got Myriam's car insurance to pay for it. I think it should
just cost us the deductible of $100. The people at the Avis office who we
had become acquainted with from our prior car rentals from them, thought it
was hysterical that our seatbelts were eaten. They had never heard that one
before. In our embarrassment, and to save some money, we decided to rent
from yet another car place (Budget). The lady at the budget office tried to
get us to join her “internet company” and told us that she was gonna retire
in 2 years. Sounded like a scam to us. I've already been through the
internet boom, and Budget Rent-a-car people don't become millionaires in
their spare time on the internet..
Our last full day in Seattle, we pretty much did the tourist thing; We
tried for the 2nd time to go to the seattle art museum, but found out that
it is not only closed on Mondays, but closed until sometime in 2007! So we
went to the aquarium and looked at fish and fur seals and pet a sea urchin
and such. We then went on a late afternoon sailing tour. There was no wind
at all, so we floated in the sound for about an hour, and then they turned
on the motor and we motored back in to the port. Fairly uneventful, but it
was a cool view of the city.
We left as soon as we were full of our trip supplies and we headed for the
Oregon border Friday afternoon. We figured that Oregon has been good to us
and it's time that we start to head back. We stayed on Friday night at Fort
Stevens, which is on the upper left corner of Oregon. Lewis and Clark did
something there. Pretty much any place that Lewis and Clark did anything
here is noted. They spend a miserable night somewhere on the coast, thus
it's called Dismal something or other and Cape Disappointment, because they
were sad about something. They saw a whale, and now the place is called
whale in Chinook (Ecola) They also spelled everything wrong, like “butifull”
and “emence”. We couln't help but quote Lewis and Clark, though, when we saw
the coast for the first time, “Ocean in view, O the joy”.
On Saturday, which also happened to be Myriam's birthday we went on a long
hike along the coast at Ecola State Park. It was a great hike through sitka
spruce forests. Not surprisingly, Clark went along this same trail in 1806
and called stuff “butifull”. He was right, aside from spelling it wrong. It
was a great hike and we were exhausted when we were done. We found a few
chantrelles and a lobster mushroom, and a few large blooms of “chicken of
the woods”.
We had Myriam's birthday dinner on the cliffs of Ecola Point. We stayed the
night on Nehalem Bay State Park near Manzanita, Oregon.
Sunday, we took our time going down the coast. We walked along the beach
in the morning, and saw people riding their horses on the beach. We tried to
find the place to ride them, but were unable to find the “horse rental”
place. We drove south, and stopped near Rockaway beach and rented a motor
boat. They were surprised when we just wanted to rent a boat and not go
crabbing. So we rented the boat, and Luna came with us. She was a little
freaked out at first then accepted the fact that she could now float on
water. That is, until I grounded the boat in the shallow part of the bay. I
had to get out, roll up my pants and push the boat into deeper water. This
required me figuring out how to pull up the motor and then move the boat. I
still managed to get my pants all soaked, and Myriam took pictures to prove
that it happened.
We drove down to Cape Lookout, where we stayed before. We enjoyed it so
much that we decided to stay another time here. We walked along the beach
and found a dead giant mola mola (aka sun fish). It was pretty recently
dead, so we go to look at it up close. They are the weirdest fish I think,
and the cutest. They have a little mouth and 2 giant flippers that look like
shark fins. It was interesting to get a close up view.
We got rained on last night, and our rv leaks water, and right by my
head, so we got a little wet. We went on a nice hike this morning up cape
lookout and found a bunch more lobster mushrooms and some chantrelles. We
are now on the road, on a sort of schedule (which is kind of new for us) to
get back to Santa Cruz by Friday. We are currently in Newport, Oregon at an
internet cafe.
And that's the current state of the Cohens!!!!!!!

=-Mrs Myriam Hodge Cohen-=
=-Mr. Mikey Lloyd Cohen-=

Filed under: Uncategorized