Just south of Tillamook off of US 101 there is a huge old blimp hangar (in the Guiness Book of World Records as the world's largest woodframe building) with the words "Air Museum" in huge letters on the side. Inside are working historic planes, cockpit simulators and other exhibits, but it's the building itself that looks cool.
Considered the "World's Largest Free-Standing Wood Structure," 206 feet wide, 1,072 feet long and 192 feet high. The blimps housed here during World War II monitored enemy activity along the coast, dropped depth charges and sank a couple of submarines in 1943. Hangar A was destroyed in a fire in 1992; hangar B continues on as the Air Museum.]
There is also an RV Park on the same property and guess where we stayed????
The airstrip is still being used for small jets and vintage aircraft which was really cool to watch...
Factory, but we found a wonderful wine here at the wine tasting corner of the factory......
Ted an Bob are pointing it out for you Mike and John, look familiar?????
The one with the ears is Teddy......
.....No, Ted is not doing what you think he is doing......(Shame on
You).....He is after the geo-cache. I told you it was over grown.
......and this is all we got?????
that we were looking for. We did finally find it, but it was rough....
I had to take this picture....The SI's came in this afternoon and two of the
member's had rescued grey hounds, but this one walked around with this stuffed toy rabbit
in its mouth.....it was sooooo cute.
more geo caching for us......
coastal country.....
eagle....on the beach.
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BUT, did you go to the McDonalds and have a sundae made with wonderful Tillamook Ice Cream?
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