August 28th: I have Ashkenazi, Sephardic, Hungarian, & American Indian DNA coursing through my veins … being "on the move" is part of who I am. I have itchy feet that need to feel the rhythm of motion from one place to another; so, I'm glad to be on the move again 😁
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We were both glad to be leaving the PNW gloominess behind; it's been like this since we arrived here, in April 😟
As we were nearing the Astoria-Megler Bridge, flocks of brown pelicans flanked us as they winged their way up the Columbia River … and as we passed through Astoria to Warrenton, we saw huge flocks of white pelicans perched atop the old pylons lining the Bay's shoreline. I like seeing pelicans; so, I will miss this part of our ventures in the PNW.
First stop was Les Schwab in Warrenton-OR to have a tire switched out - I stayed in Betsy and slept through the whole thing.
Then, on the road again & fueled by a coke & Cheeto's (Holland sipped a Red Bull), I did stay awake the rest of the drive; but I knew Holland must have been feeling the Sandman's breath on the back of his neck. We agreed that once we set pegs, sleep would dominate the rest of the Day👌: there would be plenty time to engage in adventurous explorations over the weekend.
The Day was gray & foggy, all day long, but it progressed peacefully and amicably 🕊️
We heard before we saw the big black Steam Engine on the tracks in Garibaldi-OR. It was pretty cool to see the puffs of white steam billowing around the bulky black engine - kinda like a time-warp moment 😉
McCloud Railroad #25 is a historic 2-6-2 "Prairie" type steam locomotive built by ALCO in 1925, which spent 30 years hauling logging trains for the McCloud River Railroad before being preserved and entering excursion service. After appearing in films like Stand By Me and Bound for Glory, the locomotive was purchased in 2011 by the Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad and moved to Garibaldi, Oregon. It now operates public excursions on the Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad.
Further along, we saw a gigantic coal burner smokestack in Garibaldi … and a concrete bridge in Tillamook - both pretty impressive, and ground-breaking in their landmark eras:
The Garibaldi Smokestack
The great smokestack still towers above the small coastal fishing town and port of Garibaldi located on the Oregon Coast.
In 1918, developer Cummings-Moberly built a sawmill on this site. The Whitney Mill Chimney, the remaining smokestack, was constructed by the Hammond Company, the third owners of the mill.
Thanks to construction of the Pacific Railway and Navigation Railroad, they had a distinct advantage over the other mill in Garibaldi, the Smith Mill, which relied on coastal schooners to transport its lumber. That said, in 1920, Cummings-Moberly went broke and was taken over by the Whitney Company which operated until 1924 when it too was sold to A.B. Hammond.
Under Hammond, the mill became one of the largest on the West Coast. In slow market times, Mr. Hammond built houses for the workers to keep them busy. By the late 1920’s Garibaldi was known as a “company town” providing homes for mill personnel, a boarding house at the Whitney Inn, and some of the best baseball teams on the west coast.
Hammond built the smokestack in 1927-28 to keep from suffocating the town’s growing population as there was a large electric generating plant fired by wood waste located here.
In 2013, the Garibaldi city council debated whether or not to tear down the iconic landmark due to extreme deterioration. It had become a safety hazard, caused by the wind and salt air coming off the Pacific.
Thanks to John Foulk, who suggested fiber glassing the structure to help prevent any further disintegration, the old smokestack still remains to this day.
We arrived at our destination 🎯, secured a nice country-setting-space in Tillamook-OR through Saturday, & set up; chatted a few minutes with a friendly, curious, neighbor; I got a workout wrestling the picnic table about 15 feet out of the way (it had been blocking both doors, so I dragged it up towards the main road - cardio & full body workout was engaged 💪😉👊; while Holland finished getting Independence set to right) - & as soon as the slide-outs were slid out & set in place … we both promptly fell into 🛌 for a much needed 6 hour sleep 😴
This RV Park a nice place to layover - but there is a glitch: WIFI is very sketchy here - like the dial up, landline era. It could be that the trees , or the ever-present coastal fog, is hampering the airwaves - but whatever the reason for the snail pace internet crawl, Holland is not happy with our high-priced [signal anywhere, everywhere] T-Mobile Tower 😡; he's been threatening that tower with replacement of Elon Musk's Starlink, and this may be the final straw. The connect with T-Mobile is very slow, with many sudden cut off's.
Other than that, this is a nice place to layover 👍
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