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With Summer winding down, local Yaquina City residents discuss their plans for the
upcoming Labor Day Road Trip getaway.
Every year at this time folk are preparing for their last fling of Summer as they face the dreariness of Fall’s return, with its return to school and tedious jobs — until the joy of the winter feasting days arrives. Summer’s last fling.
This year, with its wild weather over the past 4 or 5 months, and recent economic trouble has put a damper on our collective spirits and we are looking for modest (cheap) vacations.
Many people are choosing a visit to their favourite park or beach. Or perhaps a road trip up or down the coast; however this year the folks living on the North East coast may not warm to that idea with half their roads destroyed in Irene’s wake. But for those of us on the West Coast, the upcoming influx of visitors is raising scepticism. This year is different from most, this year these tourists are largely broke!
A group of us (not involved in the hospitality industry) gathered at Yaquina Petes to plan our strategy this week. Over a couple of cold ones we shared how we are going to escape when the cash strapped Mongols descend on our community. Broke tourists are the worst kind.
Most said they were going to head inland and do some shopping at Home Depot. Others said they would just watch the road trippers from one of Pete’s benches.
Found in an old attic trunk this week was an original drawing of the HMS Nautilus; a square-rigged Nautilus hulled Schooner. With the secret of retrofitting sea shells with boat architecture now revealed, engineers are just waiting for a 100’ dia. Nautilus shell to wash up on the coast.