Ok I have been a horrible friend lately and I apologize.... I will be yapping more soon... once my visitor is gone and things settle I will be back here a lot.... That is like Sunday this will happen...
So I have been camera happy and taking pics like I was a Japanese Tourists.... I have some new photos in my pics. When I get around to cleaning them up I will update again. Then I will show them off but I am feeling a little lazy today.... I want to talk to you about yesterday before I lose interest and go to bed.... I am exhausted today....
So yesterday and today my dad took off to hang with our guest and travel about.... He is leaving Saturday so we figured we would make a run to the coast, then the next day we would fish and then head to portland to hang out until he leaves.... So we decide Thursday (which was yesterday as I write this) is the day for the coast.. My dad gets the idea that we need to check out the distillery in Brookings which is way southern Oregon near the California Border. It is a coast town which has, according to the fisherman we spoke to, the safest harbor on the Oregon coast line. Well the distillery is called Brandy Peak and guess what they make.... NOt tequilla they make Brandy!!! ANyways my dad decides he wants to not go the nice known route that would be from Roseburg to reedsport and then down hwy 101 no he wants to head to Grant's Pass and head to Gold Beach.... which is fine in theory..... So we leave a few minutes after 9 AM. The road was crazy we got about 30 miles from Grant's Pass and the road gets weird. I am reading in the back seat and not paying attention but my dad is the Navigator and he totally misses the turn off sign.... so we travel down the wrong way for a few minutes and suddenly the mile markers and the center line disappear but we keep driving for another 15 minutes until we hit a fork in the road that says nothing about the coast.... one way goes back to roseburg and the other way goes who the hell knows where?
So we figure out we missed the turn and head back...... we then get back to the original spot and we see a huge sign and I start having a bad feeling because my dad missed this huge fricking sign! So I stop reading the book.... we follow along and we come upon a detour sign and next to the detour on a piece of cardboard it says gold beach is the detour route..... they do not some how see it and we continue on with me mimicing the dude from office space talking about setting the building on fire except with me it's the car.... anyways we hit a huge road closed sign like ten miles up...... how they waited until then to put up another sign is beyond me.... but hey Oregon must hate signs because they use as little as possible.... so we double back and at the detour sign I say lets go back to grant's pass and travel to a main freeway it will be faster.... they decide not to take my advice.....
So its an hour and a half into a 2 hour maybe 2 and a half mile ride.... and we are not halfway done.... It is only 80 miles they say and with that we start climbing up a mountain and the road gets smaller and smaller and smaller until its a one lane designed for two lane traffic......... So we are traveling and I am thinking this sucks I hope the detour doesn't last to much longer because I am not digging this... and then the road goes from paved to gravel........... 
Yeah you guessed it.... I am a little freaked...... I am thinking deliverence type scenes... "squeal lika a pig" and all... I mean these were signs on cardboard!!! Yeah well we get off the dirt road after the most harrowing 15 miles ever and I am glad to see paved roads and then I notice there are no center dividers and I think I guess the other direction must have another road.... survey says..... NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah they are all coming on the same f'n road! We have hardly done anything but climb since we started the trip and we haven't stopped yet.... finally we atart heading down hill and this is where it gets crazier.... We are on a one way road behing another vehicle following alond and in my opinion to closely following! Anyways I am trying to redirect my focus from the drive which at this point is 3 hours long and the driver who is crazy..... So I start watching the other guy and he is breaking all the time whether it is warranted or not... So I start talking with my dad about this and so the driver thinks in response to us poking fun at the guy that he should pass him.... On a one lane road!!!!! We yell "WHat are you doing!" sixty times and he realizes we don't want to die finallyt and backs off.... Shortly there after the poor probably also scared shitless driver in front finds a pull out and gets the f' out of our way.... so our driver stars driving 65 mph down a treacherous windy mountain pass and then we start hitting oncoming traffic and he scares the shit out of me everytime stopping quickly and then hitting the gas peadl again and I start to believe I will not make it out alive.... so this continues on until we finally get within 20 miles of gold coast.... and finally we have a normal road.... but we still had a crazy ass driving.... It was almost 2 PM! SO gold Beach took more than 4 and a half hours to reach!!!! Every single minute of it sucked ass!!
The coast was beautiful the brandy distillery was awesome and our lunch was good. The drive back was sane because it was the main highway but I was exhausted from the constant state of fear I had been in for almost 5 hours and cranky because I had skipped breakfast assuming we would eat on the road.... yeah I didn't eat until 3 I was ready to kill....
THe day would have been much more fun had we not came down that way.... but anyways I totally think that is why I am so wiped today...
So I have been camera happy and taking pics like I was a Japanese Tourists.... I have some new photos in my pics. When I get around to cleaning them up I will update again. Then I will show them off but I am feeling a little lazy today.... I want to talk to you about yesterday before I lose interest and go to bed.... I am exhausted today....
So yesterday and today my dad took off to hang with our guest and travel about.... He is leaving Saturday so we figured we would make a run to the coast, then the next day we would fish and then head to portland to hang out until he leaves.... So we decide Thursday (which was yesterday as I write this) is the day for the coast.. My dad gets the idea that we need to check out the distillery in Brookings which is way southern Oregon near the California Border. It is a coast town which has, according to the fisherman we spoke to, the safest harbor on the Oregon coast line. Well the distillery is called Brandy Peak and guess what they make.... NOt tequilla they make Brandy!!! ANyways my dad decides he wants to not go the nice known route that would be from Roseburg to reedsport and then down hwy 101 no he wants to head to Grant's Pass and head to Gold Beach.... which is fine in theory..... So we leave a few minutes after 9 AM. The road was crazy we got about 30 miles from Grant's Pass and the road gets weird. I am reading in the back seat and not paying attention but my dad is the Navigator and he totally misses the turn off sign.... so we travel down the wrong way for a few minutes and suddenly the mile markers and the center line disappear but we keep driving for another 15 minutes until we hit a fork in the road that says nothing about the coast.... one way goes back to roseburg and the other way goes who the hell knows where?
So we figure out we missed the turn and head back...... we then get back to the original spot and we see a huge sign and I start having a bad feeling because my dad missed this huge fricking sign! So I stop reading the book.... we follow along and we come upon a detour sign and next to the detour on a piece of cardboard it says gold beach is the detour route..... they do not some how see it and we continue on with me mimicing the dude from office space talking about setting the building on fire except with me it's the car.... anyways we hit a huge road closed sign like ten miles up...... how they waited until then to put up another sign is beyond me.... but hey Oregon must hate signs because they use as little as possible.... so we double back and at the detour sign I say lets go back to grant's pass and travel to a main freeway it will be faster.... they decide not to take my advice.....
So its an hour and a half into a 2 hour maybe 2 and a half mile ride.... and we are not halfway done.... It is only 80 miles they say and with that we start climbing up a mountain and the road gets smaller and smaller and smaller until its a one lane designed for two lane traffic......... So we are traveling and I am thinking this sucks I hope the detour doesn't last to much longer because I am not digging this... and then the road goes from paved to gravel...........
Yeah you guessed it.... I am a little freaked...... I am thinking deliverence type scenes... "squeal lika a pig" and all... I mean these were signs on cardboard!!!
Yeah well we get off the dirt road after the most harrowing 15 miles ever and I am glad to see paved roads and then I notice there are no center dividers and I think I guess the other direction must have another road.... survey says..... NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah they are all coming on the same f'n road! We have hardly done anything but climb since we started the trip and we haven't stopped yet.... finally we atart heading down hill and this is where it gets crazier.... We are on a one way road behing another vehicle following alond and in my opinion to closely following! Anyways I am trying to redirect my focus from the drive which at this point is 3 hours long and the driver who is crazy..... So I start watching the other guy and he is breaking all the time whether it is warranted or not... So I start talking with my dad about this and so the driver thinks in response to us poking fun at the guy that he should pass him.... On a one lane road!!!!! We yell "WHat are you doing!" sixty times and he realizes we don't want to die finallyt and backs off.... Shortly there after the poor probably also scared shitless driver in front finds a pull out and gets the f' out of our way.... so our driver stars driving 65 mph down a treacherous windy mountain pass and then we start hitting oncoming traffic and he scares the shit out of me everytime stopping quickly and then hitting the gas peadl again and I start to believe I will not make it out alive.... so this continues on until we finally get within 20 miles of gold coast.... and finally we have a normal road.... but we still had a crazy ass driving.... It was almost 2 PM! SO gold Beach took more than 4 and a half hours to reach!!!! Every single minute of it sucked ass!!
The coast was beautiful the brandy distillery was awesome and our lunch was good. The drive back was sane because it was the main highway but I was exhausted from the constant state of fear I had been in for almost 5 hours and cranky because I had skipped breakfast assuming we would eat on the road.... yeah I didn't eat until 3 I was ready to kill....
THe day would have been much more fun had we not came down that way.... but anyways I totally think that is why I am so wiped today...
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