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Extended trip to Carmel california


Fritz

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We left Saturday morning from Turner Valley on rout to Skamania Lodge in Stevenson Washington and than south to Carmel to participate in a Porsche 912 gathering.

We- meaning Mark and Yvette and Mary my travel companion. We where towing our cars from Canada to Skamania Lodge where we unloaded and stared our holiday.

Skamania Lodge in Stevenson will be our base for a few days. Coming weekend we will join the rest of the 911 people and help them celebrating 50 years 911. Than we will work our self down towards Redwoods where the Winslow family will leave us and go north and we will keep going south.

We have reserved some activities like, Dune buggy tour on the sand dunes on the Oregon sand dunes, a Segway city tour in SanFrancisco and of course some wine tasting. Till now it was nice to have a air-condition in the Cayenne, but now the open windows in the 912 have to do it. Yesterday it went up to 32 C degree. let's see how the 912 will do.

 

Till next time

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Hi Fritz, Mary (Mark & Yvette)

 

Sounds like a great itinerary to follow. Would love to drive the Oregon coast some time in a 911/912. Scenery and twisty roads would make for great memories for sure. :rolleyes:

 

 

Travel safely and be certain to post more pictures when time permits.

 

Look forward to coffee and catching up when you return.

 

 

cheers!

 

 

Barnsey! :cool:

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First easy day, we left the lodge around noon and Mark and Yvette and us went on a round trip from the lodge east on the Washington side of Columbia River and than we crossed over onto the Oregon side and took the historic rout 30 and visited a few water falls. Temp rose to 89 degrees F but the temp gauge stayed below the half way mark. Route 30 is an amazing road, lot's of hills and quite some curves and switch backs.

A bit spirited traffic and it made our day.

It's clouding in and cooling off. Tomorrow we are either driving to McMinfille museum or weather permitting up to Mount baker and look down into the crater.

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Route 30 is an amazing road, lot's of hills and quite some curves and switch backs.

 

Fritz, I'm jealous! Your picture of the 912 dash with the spaghetti GPS image brings back awesome memories for me of similar adventures, bringing cars home from SoCal. Everybody should have a chance to run a vintage Porsche through the roads down there, a memory never forgotten! Have fun, can't wait for more pictures from your journey.

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Ian, I seen the road coming up, on the GPS and was prepared for it. mark took it by surprise. I think I had a better line through the Spaghetti twisted road.

looking forward driving the coastal roads.

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Still enjoying our relaxing trip. Yesterday we went to Evergreen Air Museum and seen the spruce goose in its new home.

The museum is amazing and interesting, the Boeing 747 on top of the roof of one building is the starting point for the water slide. To bad it was closed otherwise I would went for a splash

today we are planing to go back to Route 30 and up into the mountains. also if we have time we will visit Air and Auto Museum in Hood River

 

 

 

 

why are my pictures sideways? Is there a simple solution? I am working on my I pad and not to swift if it comes to

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Fritz

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another great day exploring the surounding area. We left the lodge and drove Historic Route 30 and up to a look out where we where supose to see all mountain peaks. But no luck the clouds where to low and we just seen fog. So we went to hood River and uo to mount hood. The car was running up the hill without any problems. higher up it got colder and thats just what the engine needed. At the lodge at Mount hood we had great sunshine and the mountain range was awsome.

coming down the mountain it was just one spirited drive.

tomorrow will be a lazy day, will see what my friends have in mind, otherwise my partner and I will explore some local

wineries and fruit stands.

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Yesterday we got woken up to two false fire alarm bells in our hotel. In the morning I was a bit off and did not feel like doing much, so we decided to just for a afternoon drive to Classic Route 30 Vintage Porsche museum ( second hand dealer). It's a low key place located in a building with a 50th ice cream parlour.

Today is registration day for the 50 year anniversary and the functions will start.

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Rain and low anging cloudes around Stevenson and Hood River, so we desided to drive to hood River and see the WAAAR

museun. this is a museum for cars and plaines and 95 percent of it are in working order. The quite often take a antique palne and take it for a long distance flight and the same with cars. The museum was a privat collection and the owner finally

built 2 hangars and donated it to club for safe keeping with the understanding that the planes and cars will be used. Now other people donate working planes and cars. tomorrow they will have a fly in of 65 planes. to bad we have our event at Skamania Lodge.

Bert and Evelyn arrived this afternoon and joined us for dinner and drinks. We had a relaxing evening in front of the fireplace.

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Today it was the official Car show for the Oregon region off PCA and they celebrated 50year 911.

they had 129 911 and two 912 at the show. The weather was perfect and the early 911 and 912 where sitting in the shade.

What a tread. I can tell you quite a variety of cars in all different conditions. My little 912 got quite some attention, generally speaking it was a great show.

Tomorrow we are leaving the North west and slowly work our self down towards Carmel. tomorrow evening we hope to get to Newport Oregon.

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Today was a travel day, we left Stevenson WA at 10 am and just arrived in Coose Bay Oregon

Inland we had 85 degree and no wind. My temp gage still just came up to a quarter.

When we hit the coast the temp dropped to 65 degree and the fog rolled in. Still it was a great drive.

The car performed flawless, checked my oil and it might be down a 1/4 " nothing to worry about.

Tomorrow we will hit the redwoods and put in a lazy exploring day.

 

Oh I totally forgot to mention that my 912 won at the 50 year anniversary event, another price. Did not expect this, as there where quite a few interesting cars on display

But they figured, the 912 was actually, the starting point to get the911 sold in the USA and without the 912 the car sales of the 911might not took off as well.

Fritz

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That's awesome Fritz! Looks like you guys are having a great time - beautiful part of the world down there.

Jim

 

17 black/black Audi R8 V10 Plus - still within the VW family! a few minor upgrades

12 black/black Cayenne Turbo - a few minor cosmetic enhancements

91 black/black/black 911 C4 Cab - keeping it pretty OEM and basic

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Left Coose Bay around 9am and pointed the car south. Had to stop a few times to take in the country sides. The fog rolled in and climbing up into light house did not make sense as the fog was so thick that we could not see the shore line. Down the road we stopped at a wood carver and admired his talent. Some people have more talent than I have.

After purchasing a small item we rushed down towards the Redwoods and checked in into our Casino Hotel in Loreto CA

Temp. ranged from low 65 degr. as high as 90 degr.

Tomorrow we will spend a day driving through the redwoods area and will try to find a tree where we can drive the 912 through.

We are getting closer to Carmel,

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it's Tuesday and we had a relaxing day exploring the Giant trees and some window shopping in Eureka.

Tomorrow we are heading towards Point Arena and hope the weather is good enough to spend some time on a beach.

Thursday, we might take Highway 128 to 101 and down to Davenport for lunch and than into Carmel

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Left Loleto ( just south of Eurika) at 7am and drove down #101 to Legitt and turned of onto #1 coastal high way.

The next 22 Miles where the most incredible curves and hils. There was nit more than 3 car lenght of straiht road, the rest where hard corners. What a blast. Since we left that early, we had no motor home trafic. We stopped at a botanical garden and spend at least 2 hr admirering those flowers and plants. We are now in Point Arena at a quaint little B&B overlooking the little fishing harbour. Had some great sea food and a good glass of Wine.

Just checked the Mileage and we still have to cover 400 km to Carmel.

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We looked at our road map and google map and figured it will be at least a 5 to 6hr drive from Point Arena to Carmel. So we left at 6:30

am and took of in darkness and foggy shore lines, but when daylight emerged the coastline was stunning. Lot's of hills and curves and I wish I had power Steering. The GPS was set to shortest distance to carmel and that meant going through DownTown San Francisco. I can't understand that one program sends us one way and the other GPS another way. Any how, we drove up and down some of those hills and my clutch got a work out. There is no room for rolling back. The drill was clutch in, hand break pulled as tight as it can be and at take off

let clutch out and ease off on hand break. I finally made it out of down tow. and back onto the free way. Golden gat bridge was partially in Fog, but still visible. We arrived at the hotel just on time to have a late lunch , clean up the car and meet some friends which I made over the internet.

Tomorrow we are off into the hills and some wine tasting.

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Fritz,

Years ago Leslie and I drove a rented BMW Z3 along the Cabrillo Highway (coastal) from San Francisco to Carmel. You are in for a treat! In those days, the 17 Mile Drive in Monterey had no travel restrictions, so we drove it at midnight (top down) under a full moon. Enjoy!

 

Marc

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Mark we had a great ride and today they took 66 912 Porsches into the hills and I tell you, it was a great ride. Having lots of fun with the 912 group. Tomorrow is a car show and than we will drive the 17 mile drive.
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I am to lazy to type today. We are having a ball and the drive to the Wine tasting was a blast. 66 cars from the same type up and down a windy road is a sight to be seen.

Tomorrow we are slowly heading north to Seattle and Mt. Baker and Boing Factory. That will take us 3 days and more sight seeing.

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Pictures from our stay in Frisco. Mary and I had a blast. the drive was great and Golden Gate Bridge was not in fog. The America's Cup is on and we seen some big boys with their expensive toys racing under golden gate Bridge in BIG boats.

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