Tillamook, Oregon

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...

........and what would a visit to Tillamook be,without visiting the Cheese Factories. Mike and John and I visited Tillamook in 1999 and we did not realize that this was not the big CHEESE
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......

The one's with the tails are not Bob......

This is the Original 'Tillamook Cheese' Factory, but to tell you the truth, the small one was more fun, cuz they had more samples.....

.....and then we went geo-caching again and it took us to an old unkept cemetery...... It was call the Trask Cemetery and was named after this pioneer that died in 1863.

It was rather sad to see the condition of some of the graves. The foliage

seem to take over everything, and no one was taking care of the grounds.

.....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.

I mean really!!!! we had to really dig for some of these.....

......and this is all we got?????

....and there you go again, no, Ted is not using the bushes......

This one was a doosey, it was like the mystical 'Harry Potter' forest.....

But we thought it would be very easy, because it was a ten gallon drum
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.

and if the SI's were there, so was Judy and Suzanne........Yea!!!!!! ....and of course
more geo caching for us......

I don't know, if I'll be happy with desert geo caching after seeing all this beautiful
coastal country.....

.......and look at some of the extra plus's of geo cache(ing).....a beautiful
eagle....on the beach.

Some of the places we cached ask for visual verification that we had been there....
This was one, we were to verify by telling how many handicap parking spaces
were at this specific spot......there were two,

I took this picture because ...this was one of the two handicap spaces....

This is the way Oregon bales its Hay.....looks more like marshmallows......

.....and we took off for the next spot Ted had picked out for us....
Ocean Shores, Washington here we come......

to get there we must cross the bridge at Astoria....

This is Sadie just before she upchucked.......