Through OR to CA...

We took Cori to the Portland airport and put her on a flight that went to John Wayne airport in Orange County, CA then on to DFW. Having to come home early is the down-side to having a summer internship where you only get 5 days off.....BUT we're very thankful she got to join us!!

Nancie & I got on Hwy 26 to Canon Beach, OR. It was beautiful. We walked down the beach to the haystack rocks.








We had a good seafood lunch at Mo's on the beach. We got on Hwy 101 & drove down the coast. It was an incredible scenic drive!!

In North Bend, OR, as we drove across a bridge, we could see another bridge across from us that had a gap in the middle of it. We asked in town and learned that it was a railroad bridge. The middle section stays turned so that boats can pass through, but with an hour and a half's notice from the train, the mid-section rotates and makes the bridge passable. It hasn't been operational in years, but has recently been refurbished to begin being used in the next couple of months. Very cool!

When we got to the state line, we came to an agricultural inspection station. The officer asked us if we had any fruit with us. I told him we had an orange & a banana. He asked where they were from. I told him, "Oregon". He asked where we were going. We told him Oakland. This guy took his job very seriously. He carefully inspected the orange and declared, "The skin is pretty beat up. You'd better make sure you get it into a proper trash receptacle." He pointed out that since it was Sunkist orange, it might well have been grown in CA. As we drove on, through our laughter, these questions arose...

*are bananas not a high risk fruit?

*if we had been going to San Diego, would that be more of a problem?

*what is a "proper trash receptacle"?

*did your uncle get you this job?

*is the Sunkist label serve as a fruit passport across state lines?

*is this California's tax dollars at work?

THIS WAS THE FUNNIEST THING THAT HAPPENED TODAY!