Tillamook and Keizer, OR, Elk Lodges

Our next stop was Tillamook, OR as we like the nice Elks RV park located just 4.5 miles south of town in the woods. It's nice, clean and well done park with full service and WiFi for $20 a night for Elk members. There's 21 sites and they plan on putting in 6 more. The weather was very mild near the coast line. We've been to the Tillamook Cheese Factory twice already, so didn't do that again. We did go on the Quilt Trail run. There are over 80 of the wooden quilt blocks painted with different designs in the Tillamook area. I took pix of many but only posted 3 as they get overwhelming. The owners of businesses buy the blocks and have them mounted on the side of their establishment. Pretty cool and different. We did some more sight seeing along the road, where we saw some parasailers just north of Tillamook, near Netarts, OR. On our way back to the park ran into a huge herd of Elk in an open field! Wow! What a sight. They were beautiful. Also saw some "oreo cows" as we call them. They are actually Galloway Belted milk cows. Interesting to say the least. Locals call them belties.

Then on Sept. 8th we celebrated Donna's birthday and our 20th anniversary! Ms. Donna took the day real easy. We went out for breakfast, then Tom fussed over her with flowers, a extra meaty slab of ribs, slaw, corn on the cob. The birthday girl was then treated to a homemade devil's food cake, with milk chocolate frosting. Oh yeah, topped with some cinnamon graham cracker pieces, and a scoop of vanilla bean ice cream! A happy girl she was!!!

We now have arrived at the Keizer, OR, Elks Lodge and have a nice pull thru site with full service hook up. We like this lodge because they have a super bar and the food in their restaurant is fantastic. Another clean and well run Elks. Same price as Tillamook at $20 a night. We have a neighbor parked in a motorhome next to us came over to tell me that he's never seen such a pretty sewer set up on a rig. I told him I called it my "Alaskan Pipeline"! Ha.

We'll stay here a few more days, then head into Portland to do our annual medical stuff.