Pacific Shores RV Resort

Hello from Oregon!  We spent 7 hours on the road yesterday - well over our "comfort zone", but for the first time, we really had a hard time finding a campsite. It happened to be a beautiful Saturday afternoon on the Oregon Coast (a rare event) and our fellow Oregonians flocked to the coast. We did stop several times and enjoyed lunch on a bluff overlooking the Pacific. DT stopped at the new golf course in Bandon, Oregon (Bandon Dunes) to look it over for a future visit. It is a Scottish-style course, built into sand dunes on the beach.
 
The drive yesterday was fabulous.  Because of the clear blue skies and calm seas, we were treated to another breath-taking vista at every turn. But it is a rough road and we felt we had been on a ship on tossing seas all day. The State campgrounds were packed, so we ended up at a ritzy campground, Pacific Shores, near Newport we had visited before. However, this resort has been purchased by a group of "Resorts" and they are in the middle of huge upgrades. It was a pretty nice park already, but when they are finished with the improvements, Pacific Shores will definitely be one of the nicest campground in the state - IF you own ONLY A MOTOR COACH, and ONLY if it is OVER 25 FEET LONG and ONLY if it is LESS THAN 10 YEARS OLD and if you have a NON-AGGRESSIVE DOG who only poops in the designated poop-places. Luckily (whew) we fit into those categories and paid $48 for the privilege to park on their newly set concrete.

We tried to leave Snickers, but after waiting (outside the camper, in silence) 20 minutes for him to calm-down, we gave up and put him in the back of the BC2.  Probably because I take him with me in the car often, he doesn't mind being left in the back of the car! Dumb dawg. We went to the docks of Newport and had dinner at a "Public House" owned by a friend. Snickers curled-up in his dog bed and took a nap. The brew was excellent, but the food was not so hot. We did win $3 in food credit in the trivia contest. (We did not know how many blank tiles there are in a Scrabble game, or we would have won $4!)
 
This morning we walked down to what is left of the beach. A few years ago, there was a terrible storm and several beaches on the coast disappeared.  All that remains here is rock - the sand is gone. We saw many purple and orange sea stars, mussels and crab in the tide pools. But, we are checking-out of this fancy place in a few minutes and will head up the coast, searching for salt-water taffy.
 
ADDED LATER: We are home! Safe - and everything is fine here at The Manor. The day was fun: we stopped in Depoe Bay for a scone and coffee (and salt water taffy), stopped at Cape Kiwanda for lunch and made it back to town in time for our long-standing Sunday night pizza date. (Lisa and Kelsey had pizza together tonight in Washington, DC!)
 
Goldie covered 3,226 safe miles (every mile driven by DT) - many more were driven in the BC2. 30 nights. We learned a lot, ate well and enjoyed spectacular sights. Snickers didn't take to RVing as happily as we did - we will have to work on a solution to this problem. We hope you enjoyed our trip as much as we did - until our next adventure, I remain, your happy correspondent.

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