Pacific coast 3500 mile road trip through national parks!

[SweetSunshine]

Very amazing. Wish I were young enough to sleep in the bed. I am heading north from Scottsdale in July with a similar route up the coast. I am going to Alaska, though, so you gave me some ideas for the route back. Very, very nice pictures.

thats one of the trips i would love to do! if i ever get a month off, im gonna do alaska!!

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[SweetSunshine]

Wow. That looks like a great trip and a great truck to do it in. It’s amazing how much happier those kind of journeys make us, isn’t it?

yeah it kinda puts everything into perspective. I feel its what we were really built for, nature and the outdoors!!

 

[SweetSunshine]

Did a similar trip last year...have another one coming up. I've done several cross-country trips and northern Calif, Oregon and Washing, Idaho and Montana are always my favorites...and man does the Hybrid do a home run on fuel savings. Lewis and Clark spent 8 winter months of freezing temperature near the Astoria bridge near Astoria.

Spent a lot of time along the Columbia...always one of my favorites is the Tillamook Air Hanger you probably drove right by. It is probably still the world's largest wooden structure. A WWII blimp hanger build there to monitor the Pacific Coast after Pearl Harbor....the inside is amazing. After 80 years the wooden frame structure, an engineering marvel, is still standing, now a museum.

Thanks for sharing jpgs.

oh noo! i was gonna stop in tillamook too, but i ended up passing by early in the morning! ill have to stop by when i go back!

 

[SweetSunshine]

Beautiful! I love that eruption green color! I am planning a camping trip to Sequoia National Park and after that I would love to do a trip to Highway 395 and camp at different spots.

id love to do sequoia at some point this year!! it looks like so much fun!

 

[nbmav]

oh noo! i was gonna stop in tillamook too, but i ended up passing by early in the morning! ill have to stop by when i go back!

We went to Tillamook a couple years ago and it was interesting but pretty touristy too and crowded (assuming you mean going to the Creamery).

 

[The Real Maverick]

McMinnville

Home of the Spruce Goose Airplane
(Adjacent to Tillamook)

 

[nbmav]

Didn't know that, that would have been much more interesting!

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