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Location: Upper Left USA | Following the Fourth Me and Mrs. will be staying in Seaside, OR and looking over the Coast.
Anything worth looking for or OFCer's running aboot? |
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Location: Newington, CT | I'm a mere 3,500 (or so) miles away in CT... |
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Location: closely held secret | The Carousel Mall is always fun.
Gift shops, arcade, specialty shops, hit Rascals if you like taffy, they've got most every flavor you could think of.
Seaside Aquarium (feed the seals!)
There's also the Seaside Factory outlet mall and the LARGEST SITKA SPRUCE TREE.
If you come in on hwy 26 MAKE SURE you stop at the Camp 18 restaurant and museum. Come hungry, the food is great and the portions Paul Bunyan sized.
Can you tell I've been to Seaside before? |
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Location: Seattle | Ice Cream at the Tillamook cheese factory.
http://www.tillamookcheese.com/ |
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Location: closely held secret | Absolutely. I was there last week.
Also just south of Seaside is the town of Cannon Beach, with plenty of local arts and crafts, and a beach with a great tidepool area.
And it just gets better as you go south. |
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Location: Portland, OR | Arch Cape is worth seeing. But be sure to go when the tide's out. You can see an old stretch of road cut into the rock from long ago. |
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Location: Tennessee | kimby-d and I thought walking through old Fort Stevens and out to the end of the jetty was pretty cool. We'd stopped at the Tillamook factory earlier and had snacks and beverages to enjoy overlooking nothing and everything at the same time. |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | Stop by the Astoria Tower, and work up an appetite for lunch.
Seaside is a good beach town for the kids. I think the more artsy-fartsy stuff, & "slower pace", is further south. I really prefer Lincoln City/Depoe Bay/Newport area.
Check out the old blimp hangers, south of Tillamook, if possible. |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by seesquare:
Seaside is a good beach town for the kids. I think the more artsy-fartsy stuff, & "slower pace", is further south. Cannon Beach.
Originally posted by seesquare:
I really prefer Lincoln City/Depoe Bay/Newport area. Me too.
Originally posted by seesquare:
Check out the old blimp hangers, south of Tillamook, if possible. The one that is left (the other one burned a few years ago) is an air museum now. Pretty cool. |
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Location: Jet City | With the weather the way its been, maybe ice fishing? |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | +1 for Cannon beach. Haven't been there, but it's on the list. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Woody,
Check out this THREAD for info on the best clam chowder I've ever had! |
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Location: closely held secret | Moe's is over-rated and over-hyped. They used to serve a good chowder, but now they make it in huge batches and the quality has suffered accordingly. It was good 20 years ago. Now it's just average food in a noisy atmosphere.
You want good clam chowder, try either the Wildflower Grill or the Blackfish Cafe , both in Lincoln City. The Pelican Pub a few miles north of Lincoln City has great food (including chowder) and brews that have won awards worldwide. |
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Location: Burbank | Cannon Beach is an awesome place. Been there with my family many times. We have rented a house there and had family reunions. It has a lot of personalilty that really grows on you. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Thank you all for your suggestions and remembrances. We did a few things but Seaside is our favorite.
This picture reminds of the lines in Tupelo Honey:
You can't stop us, on this road to freedom.
You can't stop us for our eyes they see...
Men of insight, men in Granite
Knights in armor bent on chivalry
And here is the Official Unofficial Stick-Your-Chewing-Gum-Hre-Post in seaside!
A little known site!
And last but not least... one of Tony Calman's few surviving Target Kites...
Thanks! |
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OT: What to do around Seaside OR next week?