Oregon Coast

Well.... we still haven't climbed since the last post. Chiropractor's orders to stay off the heel until this monday's last therapy session.

Good news, we did get the car fixed. After running around all over central Oregon on tuesday (6/12) to three different auto-salvage/graveyards one each in Corvallis, Albany, and Eugene. We were looking for two replacement doors for Michael's Camry, which we eventually found, a green and a white door, the car is actually gray. A mechanic in Siletz, OR put the doors on for us and the camry is back up alive and waterproof after staying in the garage for nearly a week.

Michael showing off his new white and green doors on the the gray Camry.

Now with the freedom of a car, from the auto-shop we headed to Newport for a celebratory beer at none other than Rogue Brewery! The brewery is along the historic bay area near the port of Newport. To get to the bar and restaurant at the brewery you have to walk through all the 20ft+ fermentation tanks containing all the beer, the place reeked of the sweet smell of several kinds of wort boiling somewhere. Maybe the best smell besides rain. Upstairs we enjoyed a sampler of 8 different Rogue beers. Some delicious, others strange and very different. Our favorites were the black IPA, chocolate stout, juniper pale ale, and jasmine mead. We tried a Chipotle Ale, Shakesphere Stout, and a Menage-a-frog. We also had a cup of clam chowder and beer cheese soup with our beer! Rogue had over 20 of their own beers on tap... how freaking cool. Plus Rogue has their own distillery and creamery across the bay. I might have to splurge for a bottle of the their Spruce gin.

beyond excited for the Rogue Brewery beer sampler

Today we headed to Tillamook, OR to go tour the cheese factory!!

CHEESE!!! In the center bottom of the picture there's leftover cheese in the bins
from cutting?? They sell that stuff for cheaper in the store downstairs.

The factory was huge and there was tons of happy milk cows in the grass pastures surrounding the factory and the town of Tillamook. Must be why the cheese and ice cream are so delicious here. We bought two pounds of cheese as endcuts, which was much cheaper than the regular rectangular blocks. We bought a 3-year aged white cheddar and a garlic white cheddar...yum! We couldn't help but get an ice cream cones of Tillamook ice cream with Grandma's cake batter and Tillamook mudslide. 

Ice cream in hand in the cool vans they drive around to advertise.
Michael did not want to take a picture in the van at all, he's faking it well.

It was such a nice day today we couldn't help but go down the beach and enjoy the sand and nice views.