Tillamook and Oregon Coast

After Portland we headed over to the coast where we made a stop at the Tillamook cheese factory!!! I had made it to my Mecca, the home of the most amazing tasting cheese! It was awesome, you took a self guided tour where you could watch the factory workers make, cut, weigh, slice, and package the cheese. They also make amazing ice cream. After the tour we got to taste a bunch of different cheeses. Joe and I then proceeded to the ice cream counter where we ordered some different flavors of ice cream. I got to try root beer float, pumpkin, and cookies & cream, YUM! After the ice cream we headed into the factory store and picked up some different cheeses and postcards. Now that we were stuffed with cheese and ice cream (good thing neither of us are lactose intolerant!) we headed over to the coast to find a campsite for the night. Now by this part of the trip Joe and I were having a hard time deciding where to go and what to see on our way back to California, I think that we were just really tired and couldn’t decide when to be home…
We found a campsite for the night and decided as much to drive down the Oregon coast for a few hours the next day.
The drive down the coast was really beautiful, not as windy as California. The only drawback was that it was very overcast. But none the less we drove down the coast for a good 6 hours, stopping at different spots to take pictures and run through the sand on the beaches. By the end of the day we were pretty tired and decided to head over to the 5 freeway and start driving towards California. We just kept driving until we got tired, found a rest stop and slept for a few hours. We woke up early the next morning and got back on the road, by this time we knew, we were heading home. We got home on Sunday July 12th, just in time to make Joe’s cousin Marissa’s birthday party, which was cool because most of Joe’s family were there and we got to surprise them with us being home.