Day 9: Dad's Fear = My Opportunity for Adventure

When I began this trip, my dad's greatest fear was that my car would break down and leave me stranded somewhere. It did! But the blessing is that my car held up long enough so I could limp into Gold Beach on the Oregon coast. Because this happened on a Sunday, no one was available to make repairs. I had to wait until Monday, which meant I was stranded in an awesome beachfront hotel, with fantastic seaside restaurants, the boat docks, piles of drift wood on a dark sandy beach, a river adorned with a beautiful bridge, and other places just waiting to be explored. I spent the day wandering up and down the beach, took a nap, and made a new friend; a fat seal who barked at me until I went to see him, and then allowed me to get close and photograph him.

http://www.goldbeach.org/