Today is rainy and overcast – and bone chilling chilly! We have gangway issues (oh no, not again! It must be us!) and finally get off the ship about 1/2 an hour late. We walk over to Enterprise Car Rental – a nice quick little exercise – first in line for the car – and we are off to Tillamook pretty quickly.
One road – go until it ends basically! Although we do have the GPS, we really don’t need it. We drive through the rain and the clouds and hit Tillamook around 10:30ish. We go to the Cheese Factory first – it’s a self guided tour, but still pretty interesting (no headphones this time!).
After watching the workers process huge blocks of cheese, we head to the sampling area then the store. Yum! We end up with Garlic Cheddar and Black label cheddar to snack on later.
Back out in the chilly rain, we head to the Tillamook Air Museum. Cool place! It is housed in the largest wooden building in the world. Originally built as a blimp hangar, it now houses all sorts of different planes and exhibits. As we are leaving, we stop in the gift shop and find these great reversible fleece lined rain jackets for $20. We figure we can use them today for sure – and probably the rest of the trip, so we find 2 that fit and we are set.
On our way out of Tillamook, we stop at the Tillamook Smokery outlet store for snacks/lunch. 2 feet long pepperoni sticks for $1! Can’t beat that – pepperoni and beef sticks for lunch. Jerky and smoked beef to take home. We stop at a viewpoint on the way back, high above the coast and enjoy the view while lunching on our sticks and cheese!
Then it’s back to town, and the ship, ready to head to Seattle.
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