5-Star and I haven't spent an anniversary together since we've been married. Blame airplanes, trains, automobiles, and boats... This year, weeks after our anniversary, we decided to take a road trip for a belated celebration getaway. We took out a map of the Pacific Northwest coastline, dropped a penny on it, and agreed that wherever the coin landed was where we were going.
Pacific City, Oregon!
So we hitched a ride on a Cessna...
And forty-five minutes later we were there.
Actually, that's a lie.
We drove.
Five hours and forty-five minutes later, we arrived at our humble abode.
We ate at the famous Pelican Brewery right on the beach in Pacific City.
I had the Pelican Wings. Hah!
Our humble abode was two blocks from the beach. On our first night there, we saw this hunkin' piece of steel driving toward the beach.
To rescue poor, stranded beach drivers like this fellow.
Ah, what a beautiful coastline Oregon has!
Why?
WHY?
That night, we learned that this is where the 1985 hit movie The Goonies was filmed.
In the movie, Mikey and Brandon are brothers whos family is preparing to move because developers want to build a golf course in the place of their neighborhood - unless enough money is raised to stop the construction of the golf course. Mikey stumbles upon a treasure map of the famed pirate "One Eyed Willy's" hidden fortune, which set them and their friends Chunk, Mouth, Andy, Stef, Data (my favorite character, he set "booty" traps), calling themselves The Goonies, on a quest to find the treasure in hopes of saving their neighborhood.
It was from that rock that One Eyed Willy's ship emerged at the end of the movie.
We took a drive as far south as Florence, about two hours south of Pacific City.
We visited sites on Highway 101.
And everyday we went to the beach.
It took almost seven hours to get home.
But Sonya didn't mind...
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