After leaving the Mill With No Name, I stayed in Coos Bay. Aside from the impressive bridges, the bay is a hub of activity in boating and milling. I drove by mountains of wood-chips awaiting shipment from the interior of the bay. There are a few nice shops downtown, however one with a visible profile of Sheffield brace in one of the displays was closed that day and I found little else of interest in the others.
As this is the Pacific Northwest, rain followed. The next day I poked through Lincoln City, another bay town. Scattered through the town along US 101 are many different shops with different specialties. Several yielded good results and all had something of galoot interest. There was also a great bookstore there, Robert’s Books, that had many books on woodworking and tools. Several stores were closed by the time I made it through and I suspect many treasures await discovery.
Delays mounted an I missed to much of Oregon driving at night. I’m sure Tillamook had wonderful treasures, but they were a blur in my windows. That evening I stayed in Long Beach. Most of the town seemed to have left sometime in September. I was rather calm and didn’t prepare me at all for the drive north around the Olympic peninsula.
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