Today I visited the Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinnville, OR. This is the new home of the Spruce Goose, the largest flying boat ever. They had civilian and military aircraft from WW1 to the modern day. The highlights for me were the Spruce Goose, SR-71, X-15, Atlas II rocket, ME-262, the cold war soviet planes, […]
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I was originally going to go to a museum and a couple game stores then start driving to the coast, but plans changed. I went to the OMSI (Oregon Museum of Science and Industry) and accidentally walked past the ticket booth into the museum. There wasn’t hardly anything that wasn’t kid related. I walked around […]
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Today is the only day in the next week that it’s supposed to be nice weather so I took the day to explore Portland, OR. I parked up by the race track and took the train into town. I got off at the modacenter, the NBA/NHL stadium. I walked across this old lift bridge and […]
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Today I took a trip to Mt. St. Helens on my way down to Portland, OR. I don’t have a lot to say about the day besides the mountain was beautiful. The visitors centers were closed for the holiday, but I still got some great views. I stopped at Castle Lake Viewpoint for lunch and […]
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This past week has been fairly quiet. On the 17th I went to Mox Boarding House to drop off my Magic cards for sale. Mox was an awesome board game store. I stopped at the other two locations in the area too. I thought I would try my luck at the casino as I made […]
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The 13th was the last day that Ashley was here and she wanted to go to Snoqualmie Falls. The falls were over by the casino so we turned in our bets and went to the falls. The falls must be a huge attraction during the summer as there was four parking lots. It was really […]
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Today we explored downtown Seattle. We took the train to Pikes Place Market, checking out the stadiums along the way. The way the roads are laid out we couldn’t get close to them. Once we got there, we went to three places before finding a reasonably priced burger. After lunch we went back to the […]
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Today Ashley wanted to visit the Chateau Ste. Michelle winery. It was a bit of a drive up to Woodinville, WA Northeast of Seattle. The winery was very fancy. We both had their flight of the day and then had a bunch of tasters before ordering a glass. The servers there were super informative and […]
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Ashley flew in this morning after a delay that left her stuck in Denver overnight. After breakfast and a couple errands we went to the Museum of Flight. This was an amazing museum. I’ve read that it is the premier aviation museum in the PNW. The space section was ok, it was a lot that […]
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On the 3rd I toured around Bremerton, WA and then went to Tacoma, WA. On my way into town I saw there was a naval shipyard in Bremerton and a museum ship in the harbor. The museum ship was the USS Turner Joy a destroyer from the Vietnam era. I didn’t pay to tour it, […]
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