Sunday, July 5, 2009

Click the photo for a slide show of our trip to Nehalem Bay State Park. Don't ask me why there are no pictures of Jill...(she has become the family photographer!)


It has been rather strange not to post on this blog for a month. Today I reached that landmark. We arrived home on June 5th and now it is July 5th, the traditional "first day of summer" in Portland. It has been hot for the past week, which seems unusual for the end of June/beginning of July. My sense is that it usually rains through the Independence Day holiday, and then summer begins.

We were able to get away to the Oregon coast for three days last week. We stayed at Nehalem Bay State Park, which is located next door to Manzanita, OR, one of our favorite towns. This is a large and wonderful park. There are lots of level, paved trails for walking or biking. We didn't take our bikes, but we wished we had.

The weather was pretty good. It was warm on the beach, and we had sun until the morning we left. In the afternoons it got very windy, which is pretty normal, given that the weather inland was so hot. But of a morning, the weather was perfect for walks on the beach, one of the prettiest on the Oregon coast.

On our second day, we walked to Manzanita, where we bought a bottle of wine and some crackers to enjoy in the afternoon. Jill and I agreed that having a glass of wine at the beach is somehow not only imperative but completely natural.

While we were in Manzanita, we went to the sweet shop and had ice cream cones. There we met a trio of young people in their 20s. It turns out they were two sisters and a brother who have been coming to Manzanita every summer for twenty years. They were delightful conversationalists, and we were glad to make their acquaintance.

Pogo was delighted to have numerous walks while we were at NBSP. In fact, her primary activity when we were not walking was sleeping to get rested up for the next walk. We also met a group from Vancouver, B.C. They were camping in three coaches across the road from us. They had been as far south as Florence, and they were quite taken with Sadie.

My only regret about the trip was that we had no internet connectivity, so I was unable to blog the trip while it was happening. Well, the other regret was that we had to leave and come home after only three days. We look forward to our next outing. Life with Sadie is always a joy.