oregon coast

following a particularly stressful week at work, our family took a quick weekend to the oregon coast to relax.

waterfront, astoria, oregon, 2002

spent the first night in a really nice hotel in astoria (with an in-room whirlpool!). after supper we took a walk in the rain along some railroad tracks that ran behind the hotel and along the columbia river, astoria’s old industrial waterfront.

haystack rock, cannon beach, oregon, 2002

threaded our way down the coast, visited rainy fort clatsop, beachcombed at exclusive cannon beach, sampled cheese and ice cream at the tillamook cheese factory, then headed home after a stop at the portland rei.