TENATIVE PLANSOk, location and time for the gathering probably won't be announced until closer to the actual date. I'm guessing someone out around Hillsboro (on the way out of town) around 9 or 10 (depending on how many out of towners we have coming).
The trip to the coast should take about 1.5 to 2 hours. A lot of the drive is pretty straight forward on HWY 26 without a lot of curves. HWY 53 is where it gets curvy along with HWY 101. I may go explore an alternate route this coming weekend though. I'm thinking we can go all the way up to Astoria if we feel like it. I'm thinking that we will probably have lunch around Cannon Beach though.
Having a BBQ would be great that way we don't have to try and find a place on the coast. The only thing about this is that we need to split the food up amongst ourselves. This shouldn't be that hard, but it does mean that we need a very accurate count of people and if you say you are coming, you better come. 1 person can be elected just to go out and buy the food, then get reimbursed at lunchtime also (I imagine this person would probably be me if we choose to do it this way).
I think we should do the drive, have lunch, and then find some place to go drive the cars onto the beach around Seaside. Then we can park them and have some fun. I'm sure there will be hours of car talk, there always is at these gatherings.
