Day 2: Bandon, OR to Astoria, OR

Current Location: Astoria, OR

Today was bueno. Pops and I got up and strolled the beaches of Bandon. The Oregon coast has a lot of nice beaches with huge rocks just sticking up out of no where. It is very beautiful. We later packed up and checked out getting on the road around 1130 haha. Heading up toward Astoria is I believe around two something hundred miles which brought the total so far to around 720.

While driving two things became very very very clear to me. 1) I never want to move to Oregon and 2) I love all the coffee here. Firstly, I don't want to live in Oregon because there are far too many pine trees, hills, and rainy days. I do not like the rain except for once in a while when I get to be inside curled up with a book and some soy hot chocolate by the fire. Which cannot happen in Oregon because it rains like every single second of life there. Haha okay so I guess this is an exaggeration but the thing is that it just rains to much all in this entire pacific northwest area, which I might add is why there are such high suicide rates here, because it is so gloomy! Sad :( ... and Secondly, there is some trend here for drive thru coffee shops. I am not really sure what it is but in every little town on all the different corners there are Dutch Bros., The Yellow Dog, the Espresso Mill (my fav), the Naked Squirrel, the Kettle Koffee (note: some of these names are from my imagination, but I am sure they exist somewhere). Anyway the point is these little espresso coffee places are everywhere and they have all been amazing, really cute, nice, friendly, delicious, and Espresso Mill and Bakery was really cheap. We got two egg bagel breakfast sandwiches and a muffin and a coffee for eight dollars. I love you Uptown Espresso but I can barely get half a muffin and a carmello for eight dollars at Uptown ahaha. BUT I STILL LOVE YOU UPTOWN!!! Anyway my theory is that coffee makes people warm and happy so in an effort to combat the rainy depression coffee shops are popping up everywhere.

Nothing extremely excited occurred today other that Dad annoying me by moving things in my car without telling me haha. Uh... also there are lots of bridges to cross over all the rivers and bays, which I love because I love bridges. Anyway I am really tired so peace out. O yeah we went to dinner and a really great cute nice old, well used Tavern. Awesome place :) Night.

Peace