Monday morning it was time to head up the coast in our amazing rental car.
Just to get these out of the way now, may I present "Individual Photos Of Us Standing In Front Of Ocean Views" - California Edition:
We were destined for San Francisco and managed to be on Highway 1 for the bulk of the drive. North of Big Sur the slow traffic got to be too much for us and we went inland because we were Over It. 500 miles and lots of pretty scenery.
We got into San Fran pretty late and ate some Korean food. The next day we met up with my old friend Amy, Brian's friend Andrew, my cousin's family, AND our Twitter friend Greg. It was a whirlwind in which we took like no photos. Also every conversation was dominated with complaints about how expensive San Francisco had become.
Our Air BnB was really nice even if we didn't much care for the city.
Wednesday morning we were out. So long, technocracy!
We quickly entered wine country and ended up stopping at the last possible winery - Rivino. It owned.
A sampling and some wine purchases later we headed onward to Oregon.
The redwoods were magical.
We made it!
First impressions of Oregon: Lots of big ocean rock things.
We pulled into our destination for the night, Bandon, right at sunset.
That night we went out to a seafood dinner which was OK and then ended up at some townie bar where people were karaoke'n Kid Rock duets and some early 20's kid was desperately hitting on some middle aged woman. Everyone was awful and the couple next to us was breaking up. Unfortunately this did not get photographed but this pretty much sums it up:
The next morning we woke up and grabbed coffee and I snapped this photo of Brian which is really jacked up because the camera was drunkenly dropped the night before, shattering the clear lens cover. We all know who dropped the camera but I shan't name him on this public forum.
We still haven't noticed...
Okay that's better.
There had to be at least one cartwheel.
We were only in Scenic Bandon for one night before hitting the road to Portland.
Newport looked awesome and hopefully we can go back someday.
We came upon some weird sand dune looking things. Being Dune People we had to stop - unfortunately the dunes were wack and everyone was mutant and we got scolded for not driving 1mph so we fled...but not before snapping these award winning pics.
Some final ocean views.
Extremely weird car-scarecrow and bad traffic - we were nearing Portland!
Our gracious hosts.
We didn't do any of the Portland things we were supposed to do.
My cousin lives in Vancouver and aside from a couple quick city-ventures for food truck eats and more Twitter Friend Meetups we mainly lived in the Columbia River. The weather was perfect and I have no regrets.
All too soon it was time to return our rental car and head back to SLC.
And reunite with our copper angel.
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