Going Coastal

We stayed a second day (Friday) in Seattle and lunched with some long-time friends, Cam and Kristen. We have known Cam and Kristen since college and only failed to attend each others weddings because we married on the same day (5.28.1988).

They hosted us for lunch at their home, a lovely affair and it was great to catch up. Sorry, I failed to gather a photo.

We enjoyed dinner Friday night with Jacob, a second opportunity to visit and he took us for delicious ice cream as our desert treat ... a new, very trend shop only open in Portland and Seattle.

Saturday we began our trek down the Pacific Coast. Crossing into Oregon, we joined the coast highway.

The Oregon coast is beautiful. However, it is August and the outside temperatures are between 56 and 64 degrees. The coast is shrouded in low grey cloud cover, which disappears when you travel 20-30 miles inland. And, to top it all off, you still really can't pump your own gas in Oregon. As a result, I am actually looking forward to crossing into California.

All that said, our meal at Tony's Crab Shack in Bandon was amazing. Maybe the sole reason for coming back to Oregon soon!

We visited the most westerly point in the continental US, Cape Blanco.

Once in California, and having pumped my own gas ... big relief ... we found bigger trees and sunshine.

Finally, we crossed the Golden Gate heading into San Francisco.

We met Brooks, one of our God sons who is in the doctoral program at Stanford, for dinner. He is doing super well, mostly at being smart.

Dinner was fabulous and as a bonus we ate at the Los Altos Grill, managed by a long-time friend of ours, Micah. It was great to catch up with him, as well as learn about he and Holly's planed move. Their little one, Josh is so cute and with one on the way, they definite have a lot on their plate.

Having made it to the Bay Area, time for our primary purpose, baseball!