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west coast road trip part one
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wednesday, june 16 - left home around 6:50am [a coupla hours later than i was hoping] I-5 was moving pretty slow, so i ended up on 99/aurora for a bit. hooked back onto I-5 and followed it to olympia, where i hooked over onto the first stretch of highway 101.
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once highway 101 turned north, i took highway 8 west. took a brief detour on 12 east by mistake. oops. if you're ever headed that-away, all you gotta do is stay on highway 8, since it turns into 12 west. on a happy note, i decided to just stop at a dairy queen for lunch. yummers. eventually i finished with the back-tracking, and took highway 12 west to 107 south to 101 south. i followed 101 south until just north of oregon. i took 103 north up just a bit to swing by long beach. walked on the boardwalk a little ways, then hooked back onto 101 and took that spiffy bridge into astoria, oregon. kept on heading south to nehalem bay park, where i had reservations to camp. |
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the campground was actually kinda tricky to find--mapquest steered me wrong this time around. manzanita is kinda neat--it seemed to be quite the little tourist trap. i think it was kinda late by the time i got settled in, but i did take a nice long walk on the beach. that's a little jellyfish in the center there. |
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i went paddling around nehalem bay the next morning, from about 6:30-8:30am. it was quite windy & choppy, and at one point i had to drag the kayak over some tide flats for around ten minutes or so (low tide was around 8:30). the wind was really icky on the way back, so i decided i'd better not try to go all the way to where the bay opened up to the ocean. ho hum. |
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stopped here for lunch. mmm... grilled cheese sandwich... |
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i had reserved a yurt at sunset bay state park near coos bay, oregon for thursday, june 17, so i had a good stretch of road to cover that day. i hiked around the sunset bay trails a bit on thursday night. not too long, as it was pretty much after uh... sunset. |
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i did a LOT more hiking around the following morning... friday, june 18. there's a little map of the trails, etc. on the back of this brochure. i was thinking about doing some kayaking here, but there were too many strikes against me [wind, low tide, lots of rocks, very foggy, etc.]. hence the plethora of hiking... |
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that afternoon i continued southbound on 101 into california. good times, good times. |
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friday night i arrived at the prairie creek redwoods state park. very neat place to hike. i really wanted to swing by there again on the way up, but things just didn't work out. over to the right you'll see my campsite there at prairie creek; after caffeine consumption, i set out on a full-day hiking spree. |
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 from the main trailhead, i took miner's ridge trail to the clintonia trail. then i took the james irvine trail to fern canyon... then followed the beach along the coastal trail until i got to the beach campground... then took miner's ridge back to the trailhead. |
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west coast road trip part one
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