Our Pacific Drive

Our trip to the coast was pretty uneventful. We experienced rain until we got to the US just north of Spokane. From there to Forks Washington, we had rain for one day only even though we were promised two days of rain.
At Forks we stayed in a B&B called Miller Tree that was the building used in the Twilight movie, as the Cullen House. You can check out the town on the web, and check on the movie as well. Lots of business people in Forks are riding the Twilight wave.
The Town of Forks is a fishing and logging town, with the tourist industry coming largely from fishermen. The fishing is supposed to be very good with the 3 large rivers in the area. Forks also gets fog, a lot of it, and rain a lot of it too. It seldom gets very warm either. It is only 4 miles from the Pacific, and 16 miles north of the rain forest on the Olympic Peninsula.
While the scenery around Forks is nice with beaches and sea stacks, we came for warmer weather than here so we head for Oregon, and wind up in Seaside on the coast. It got warm there going to 82, but that was the last of the heat.
In Newport OR we spent some time at the local aquarium, and watching the resident sea lions at the fish processing plants. There bellowing can be heard for hundreds of feet. There are dozens of them sleeping, bellowing, getting in the water or getting out to sleep, or eating. People watched them on docks, piles of rock, anything that is dry is fair game. The Yaquina lighthouse is open to the public and a kind of museum is attached to it. The museum offers tours in the lighthouse, as well as offering information on how the light came to be, and the geography of the cape.
We saw more sea lions at most places along the coast from there down to the Giant Redwoods just south of Crescent City in California. These trees are awesome. They are some 2000 years old, go up to over 350 feet and are 24 feet across at the ground! That is a hundred feet taller than Niagara Falls! If they could only talk! The sequoia's are shorter, but a 1000 years older and 40 feet across! 
The food along the way was excellent and far cheaper than in Calgary. We had some great Tex-Mex and fresh seafood as well. The weather was great after we left Forks and stayed that way until we started home and we picked up some more rain and fog. Fog was particularly bad as we left Newport on the way home. Rain was very bad along I 84 around Mt. Hood. The rest of the trip was pretty uneventful.
All in all it was a lot of fun and relaxing except for the rainy and foggy bits.