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any recent updates. We left Vancouver last Friday and headed for Sand Lake to play some more in the sand dunes. John, Dug and Cassidy were the only other nuts to make the trip after doing the same thing at Coos Bay for several days.

At least we missed some of the "heat wave" that has hit the Portland/Vancouver area.

Here are a few pictures taken at Sand Lake. The last three pics were kinda interesting and the picture doesn't do them justice........the clouds made for an interesting sight.......at least I thought it was.

We didn't get to reserve our usual campsite so was unable to set up the internet dish......a big assed tree was directly in my line of sight so never got a signal. Fortunately I was able to set up my Dish Network dish so at least I had my MTV. Becky nearly went into withdrawals without her internet connection. Couldn't even use the air card 'cause there ain't no phone service either unless you drive out to the right spot on the sand dunes. We did take the netbook out there but the service was so slow that I gave up on it after downloading a couple of emails.

Today we drove into Lincoln City and found a prime spot to park in the casino parking lot..........big mistake, it would have been cheaper to park at the most high priced RV Park in Lincoln City! .............. come to think of it, I guess that's what we did. At least the air card is working so Becky can get her internet fix.

We did manage to get out and find a few geocaches, at least enough to get Becky over the 2,200 mark. We outta stay a few more days, avoid the heat in Vancouver and find some more caches........only problem is I got a reservation at Paradise Point so I either show up tomorrow and claim my spot or lose it. Guess we'll leave tomorrow morning sometime..........at least the electricity is "free" when we get to Paradise Point so guess we can run the air conditioner.

Got our fill of fish 'n chips and clam chowder at our favorite fish house "J's". Fish is still excellent and the clam chowder was good............we've had better there. When we arrived the chowder was "sold out' and we managed to savor the fish 'n chips long enough for his second batch of chowder to be ready.

Sunday afternoon we drove into Tillamook to fill up on ice cream at the Tillamook Cheese Factory. Everyone and his dog were there...........we looked at the line for ice cream, checked out the line for free cheese samples and then left. On to Garabaldi where we had some fish and chips at the Wheel House restaurant. The chowder was good and fish was OK but still not up to the standard at J's.

Later, when we get settled at Paradise Point. W&B