That is, we parked in their lot after we got past their vineyards and Gary spent several hours in the Museums. During his time in the museums I drove in to town and got a hair cut and visited a Goodwill store that I found right next door to the beauty shop. I have never seen such a busy GW!!! I did find camera cases to store our new GPS in. We went back to town later to eat at Pizza Hut. I have been longing for that for quite a while.
Then on Sunday we went to Newburg Friends Church to meet up with friends, Dick and Linda. We also got to say "Hello" to Warren. Afterward we stopped for lunch at Dick and Linda's before moving on to Tillamook. Linda was willing to get out the games to spend some time together, but we felt that we should get the driving done!! After the problems that we had with directions while on the road, it was a good thing that we did get an early start!! Not sure how we feel about this GPS that tells us to turn right when we should have turned left!! We will test it out a few more times before we are sure that we want to rely on it!!
Gary and Dick had visited this Museum in 2005 when there was just the one building that housed the huge wooden air ship, the Spruce Goose, built by Howard Hughes for use during WWII. He was to have built three but the war ended before the second and third ones were built. Just after the war ended, he flew it once in order to get his payment from the government.
You can see the Spruce Goose tail fin from outside through the window, but the plane is so large that Gary was not able to take one picture to show the entire ship. He did take pictures both inside and outside of it so you can see the features and magnitude of it.
They have planes sitting outside of the buildings as well as some military tanks.
Pictures taken inside the Spruce Goose:
Crew's Lounge
Cockpit
Inside picture looking toward the tail. The door at the end is 4' 6" with 30 feet of storage beyond the door!
Since 2005 they have added three more buildings to this Museum, the Space Museum
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and IMAX Theatre and the Water slide building.
The slides begin in the plane sitting on the roof of the building.
I heard at the beauty shop that the ticket for one child is $25 for the day, and of course adults are more. Thus she says that she has not visited this!! But there are plans to add a Resort to the complex in the near future.
This particular Saturday they were having a model plane show in the main museum, with many models on sale. They also had many model size displays and a Boy Scout display.
Vern, I thought that you would get a kick out of this!!
After I returned from my trip to town, I watched the farmer running the disc in his fields in back of the parking lot. They ran two tractors though out the night to get it finished! I've heard that a farmer's work is never done, but I imagine that it is better done late in order to keep the dust down.
Leaving McMinnville, our next stop was Netarts Bay, about six miles west of Tillamook, Oregon. Again we had some interesting experiences with the new GPS, not all pleasant. Freddy sure could not tell his left from his right!!!
On Monday, driving the country coastal roads, we found some lovely views along the Bay.
WE drove on to the Cape Meares Lighthouse.
While there we got to talk with the volunteers to hear their experiences with the work, since we will be doing this at Cape Blanco for the month of October.
Then on to Tillamook to visit their cheese factory and test taste the cheeses and some ice cream. Sorry Pearl, they do not have the black walnut flavor any longer.
Our last stop for the day was the Tillamook Air Museum that was the only remaining blimp hanger from 1942, a part of the WWII operation on the northwest coast.
Many of the planes housed here are still fully functional and flown occasionally.
The weather was great!! This was a busy week of sight seeing, and we have only shown you a part of what we did. So stay tuned!!
When we find locations where we have wi-fi or cell reception, we will continue to show it all to you. I tried to write the Blogs in Word and then transfer them to Blogspot, but it did not work. So I started from scratch today and then re-typed the information. It didn't take too long, but I will know not to bother with Word for the pictures, only the written information in the future.
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