The Howard Howdy: Seaside OR/Long Beach WA 9/2/2013

We decided to go to the Oregon/Washington coast for a month before hunting season in October. Since Shay is staying at our place, we will go back to Emmett so Terry can go hunting with him and try to get a deer or two.

Our first park was Seaside RV Resort in Seaside, OR. We have been there many times before. This time we got a really good site, right on a corner with lots of open space.

We found a couple of crab pots at a yard sale several years ago--in Idaho, of all places! So, Terry usually gets an Oregon shell fish license when we go to the coast. There is a really great bridge in Seaside where lots of people crab.

We didn't catch too many "keepers," which are males at least 5 3/4" wide. But, it is fun to try. Terry likes catching them and I like eating them!

I am trying to wined down our Scentsy experience. After the inventory we have left is gone, we won't be selling it any more. I will miss it, but Terry will enjoy not having to haul it out and help me set it up almost every Saturday. Plus, I am sure he will like having more space in the belly of our Journey!

My brother, Ron, and his wife, Kathy, and daughter, Destiny, came for a weekend while we were at Seaside. Destiny just got a new bicycle. She let all of us "test drive" it. It was so fun! Our first ride was to go downtown and ride on the promenade. It was actually Destiny's first real ride on her new bike. I think Kathy must have been a little nervous though, because when Destiny ran into a row of mailboxes and knocked them all down, poor Kathy hit her brakes and went flying over her bike. I really don't know how she survived not getting any broken bones. Thank goodness the mailboxes missed Destiny and Ron hurried and picked up all of the mail and tried to put them back in the right boxes. We picked up the row of boxes and stood them against a post, then hurried on our way. There were probably some surprised people when they came to get their mail!

The next day we took all of our bikes and went to the Discovery Trail in Long Beach WA. It was so fun to ride that beautiful trail along the ocean and through the forest part of it. Destiny did good on her new bike. But, a rabbit came in view and when Kathy thought Destiny would stop to look at it, she hit her brake . . .

and, yes, she landed on the ground once more. She had her camera in one hand, so the brake she hit was the front brake so it just flipped her bike. This could have been the picture she took as she fell! She is one tough gal to survive the weekend with us. I think it would have laid me up for at least a week or two! But she didn't even complain about any pain!

We stopped on the bridge and Destiny found a big yellow slug. Uncle Terry tried to convince her that it was edible, but I think she is on to Uncle Terry!

Thank goodness Kathy took some great pictures. I was on a picture taking strike, I guess. She took this nice picture of Terry and me!

Kathy even did some "backwards" photography while riding her bike. I think she actually took this picture just before she "biffed" it on her bike. That is why she had her camera in one hand when she hit her brake.

We did a self portrait of all of us on the ocean part of the Discovery Trail. I think we rode about 14 miles that day! That was amazing for Ron and Kathy, who are not used to riding bikes, and for Destiny on the maiden voyage of her new bike! We were so glad they came for a visit.

We had other visitors while we were at Seaside. My nephew, Bill Fisher, Jr., his girlfriend Sarah, and his mom Ginny and her husband Fred, were in Seaside the same time we were, but we couldn't connect until they were leaving to go home. They came and visited with us for a couple of hours. It was really nice to meet Fred and Sarah for the first time.

After seaside, we went to our Thousand Trails park, Long Beach, in Seaview WA. We walked down on the beach one day. It was kind of misty, but the birds were out and the waves were pretty high.

We ran into some horseback riders. We had heard that horses were ridden on the beach, but we had never seen any. It reminded me of our niece, Marcie and her daughter Taylor. They lived in Long Beach several years ago and she said they loved to ride horses on the beach!

Another day on the beach the weather was nice and clear. We would be leaving in a couple of days and wouldn't be back to the coast for a year, so we spent quite a bit of time on the beach.