The Orange Ninja and Friends: Beers for Breakfast

Cape Lookout, Or to Cape Blanco, Or
We went for a hike this morning on the beach and after a few minutes were enclosed in such a dense fog that we had no way of knowing where the beach access was. After jump-starting our neighbor’s car, we headed back out on the road with our first stop being the Rogue Brewery makers of Dead Guy Ale and other great beverages. We were too late for the brewery tour, but still got a chance to see everything since the only way into the store was through the inner workings of the brewery. We then headed out to Seal Rock, and even though the area was absent of seals at the time it was full of crazy rock formations and agates. Our next stop was Waldport where we stopped at another local skate park (Oregon is littered with skate parks) for Mickael to skate, and he had the park all to himself. I’m not an expert on parks, but the ones out here are anything like the ones on the East Coast, all the kids and adults are friendly and parents are out encouraging their kids to be active. Also all the parks have huge bowls built in which makes the skate boarding out here more like surfing with smooth transitions versus the choppy style of the East coast. Speaking of skateboarding our next stop was at the sandboarding (I had no idea this even existed) capital of the US at the Oregon Dunes National Park. We pulled the car over just outside Florence, Or and headed up this sand hill only to emerge upon a vast landscape of endless sand dunes that stretched for miles down the coast flanked by the ocean, lakes and rivers. We stopped for lunch in Coos Bay at a great natural café and took in everything around us on their outdoor patio. Each town that we have driven through has had it’s own identity and we haven’t seen the same thing twice. We ended up camping out at Cape Blanco State Park, and it was freezing. We ended up wearing everything that we owned to make it through the night.