{"id":675,"date":"2023-10-13T21:28:18","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T21:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taberobrien.com\/?p=675"},"modified":"2024-02-04T19:59:56","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T19:59:56","slug":"spruce-goose-oregon-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taberobrien.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/13\/spruce-goose-oregon-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"Spruce Goose & Oregon Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After a free hotel breakfast we walked out to the car to more wind and rain; a perfect day for a museum visit. We decided to take a detour from the coast and head inland to the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum<\/a> in McMinnville, OR. We stumbled across this museum on a trip to Oregon a few years ago but didn’t have enough time to make admission worth it at the time, we kept it pinned for a future visit and it was well worth it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The aviation building was constructed to hold the Spruce Goose<\/a>, the largest wooden airplane ever built. The scale of this ~320 foot wingspan seaplane is impossible to describe and photos can’t do justice to how it looms over the rest of the museum’s collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tim standing under the wing of the Spruce Goose<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The space building was also packed with neat exhibits including a Mercury capsule, SR-71, and Titan II rocket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SR-71 Blackbird at Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After the museum we continued south in the rain for a few hours before heading back west toward the coast. The rain started to ease and we stopped to check out the beach in Bandon, OR before finding a campsite at Boice Cope Park. Some dry weather, a warm campfire, wine, and grilled cheese sandwiches closed out another day on the road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Camp meal on the Oregon coast, no rain!<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a free hotel breakfast we walked out to the car to more wind and rain; a perfect day for a museum visit. We decided to take a detour from the coast and head inland to the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum in McMinnville, OR. We stumbled across this museum on a trip to Oregon … <\/p>\n

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