Yachats and Neptune Beach, Oregon

I woke up this morning in a forest fit for elves. the air was chilly and strange birds sung morning melodies from unseen heights. I threw on double layers of clothes and emerged from the tent to the morning light peeking through the canopy of massive pine trees. green moss dripped from the branches and enveloped these ancient giants.

my only thought was.. "I could get used to this."

Its weird camping in a forest where the sun doesn't touch your tent until ten in the morning, where it remains in the 60s most of the day in the middle of summer. where you are 700 feet from the ocean and yet in the middle of what looks like a scene from the ewok forest in star wars. Its surreal, beautiful, awe inspiring, and makes you want to stay forever.

we woke up and fired up the Coleman stove to cook some hot water for coffee and granola and blueberries (hippies I know) then it was time to break camp which we have gotten damn good at by now. dishes washed, camp packed up and hauled to the car then tetris time as we squeeze every possible inch of space out of the honda. we keep reorganizing the car in an attempt to find the most efficient way to operate in the limited confines. In the last 5 thousand miles we have definitely tried a bunch of different strategies and we are finally getting into a groove that works well.

Last night as the sun fell we went to Neptune beach for the last time. Its this beautiful beach tucked away under the small ocean tourist trap of Yachats. the beach has black lava rocks coagulated all over the shore in large climbable clumps that have various sized pools on the top teeming with ocean life, from anemones to crabs and little fish. the beaches are white and the tides roll in nice and easy with gulls winging low over the rocks.

Its the kind of place you could spend hours at. A river flows under a bridge and into the ocean right there, and that same river is about 200 feet from our campsite though the trail to it is an adventure in itself as you end up twisting and turning around ferns that are 5 feet tall and shrublike, and down little gullies.. kind of reminds me of fern gully actually only not animated.

Oregon is one of those amazingly beautiful places that you can see a million pictures of and never appreciate until you are out in the middle of no where surrounded by it, and going.. wow. a small veloceraptor could run by and I wouldn't be surprised.

we woke up today and decided to go to seattle. not that we needed a change of scenery but its friday and we felt like going to a city and portland wasnt an option since Justin's friend patrick who lives there is in seattle himself, so we are going to the cyberpunk city itself and I'm excited.

we crossed over into washington and I pulled over, having driven about 200 miles today, and we swapped, so now I'm blogging as Justin is driving (hooray for offline blogging tools, muhahaha)

Seattle in 123 miles! we are stoked! first thing when we get there we want some good fucking fish and chips! we got ripped off in Yachats, never go to the drift inn, that place is a rip off and the food isnt that great.

well thats all for now, I'll be writing plenty about seattle I'm sure

keep it goan, never slowin, always growin

vaxination