Little Coastal Town of Wheeler, Oregon

The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground!

Tuesday it rained and showered and rained some more.  If it’s nasty outside, I don’t want to be in it.  When you’re either on the Oregon coast or the Washington coast, these things can happen any time.  However, the ocean itself is amazing to watch in any kind of weather.  That is, if you can see it.

The clouds were so low at times we could hardly see the water right in front of us.  It was how most of the day was to be.  The good thing is that eventually this would go away.  As long as we stayed inside, it didn’t bother us and we didn’t get wet.  Other folks were still outside fishing and crabbing off of the dock.  Occasionally, Duchess needed to take her walk.  That, of course, meant someone else was going to get wet with her.

The little “squall” played havoc with our satellite.  Sometimes we were getting signal and other times we weren’t. There is a lot of difference with the weather on the western side of the Coastal Range and on the eastern side of it. Actually the weather wasn’t really too bad but after sitting around for a while, we decided to take a little ride into the town of Wheeler.

Wheeler has a population of 375.  My high school graduation class was almost that large.  The surprising thing about Wheeler was the size of a couple of the stores we walked into.  First of all, we visited Creative Fabrics.  For such a small town, you normally wouldn’t expect much.  We didn’t and we were really fooled.  This was a fantastic store with loads of bolts of fabric.  I commented to one of the sales clerks how shocked we were.  She indicated with winter weather on the coast there isn’t much for folks to do but quilt or sew.  You can bet I’ll be going back.

Next door was an antique alley.  Again, it was huge!  We walked through the store and checked out a few of the antiques.  However, we weren’t tempted to purchase any.  Where we would put them anyway?   There isn’t much room in our motorhome for anything else.

The town has a few little cafes that are only open for breakfast and lunch.  In addition there is also the Tsunami Bar and Grill.  We thought about grabbing dinner there but it was a little early.  Instead we headed to the town of Mohler and the Nehalem Bay Winery.  We didn’t do any tasting but just looking and scouting.  Across the road is a pretty good sized little grocery store but since we were heading into the Portland area the next day, didn’t figure we needed to stock up on anything.

Nehalem is only a couple miles from Wheeler.  Like most of these little beach towns, finding a café or a restaurant open for dinner during the week can be a little difficult.  However, pizza is always good and our pizza from the Pizza Garden proved just that.  

That was about it for the day.  By the time we got back to the motorhome, our neighbors were building a campfire and the rain had moved on elsewhere.

I don't normally want to post every day but when we're so busy doing things, I need to post daily to keep up.  Sometimes I really need to post twice a day but I don't like to do that.  This is my Friday post so you know that I'm behind.

Wednesday it's off to Portland!!