Day 8

This post is a part of a series on my three and a half week adventure road tripping to the west coast with three of my best friends in the Summer of 2018. I was challenged to write every day of the trip to document the adventure, so I did! My aim was to be as real and raw as possible while I was documenting and writing. Because of this, some days, I was honestly just not interested in writing, so I wrote very matter of fact “this is what we did.”

Check out the first part of the series here: Day 1 or check out a list of the days here: WCT2018

I wrote everything on my phone’s notes app, and below is word-for-word what I wrote each day. Nothing taken out, no elaborations.

As part of the challenge, I also made sure to take at least one picture every day, and each evening when I wrote, I picked one photo that I wanted to feature from that day. Some days it was hard to pick them, and other days I had only one to pick from.

A couple of notes: Each day that I wrote, I wrote the date, where I was writing from, and how many pictures I had taken that day. So the location doesn’t always reflect where the picture was taken.

July 29th
Air BnB - Portland
Pictures taken: 3

Today we were able to sleep in a bit. It was the first day of our plans getting changed from our original plan. We were planning to spend the day visiting and hiking Multnomah Falls, but due to fires last year, most of the park around Multnomah is closed, so we moved our day at Pacific City up one. So, after sleeping in a bit, making some pancakes, then getting a couple groceries at Walmart, we headed to Pacific City!

It was really fun, but a bit of a bummer. We went a little before 11, and it was sunny everywhere else, but of course, the layer over Pacific city was super foggy. So foggy that you couldn’t even see the famous Haystack Rock. :( But it ended up still being a bunch of fun! Since we had a 4 wheel drive vehicle we were able to park right up next to the ocean. We ate lunch and played Spike Ball there on the beach (Meanwhile, I think we helped push 10 cars that got stuck in the sand), and then we hiked the big sand dune!

Bummed that the views weren’t super great, but the fog was cool in a different way too! Back at the Air BnB after a nice meal and hot shower!