Susan decided we should hang around near Tillamook for a few days. Plenty to do. There’s an Air Museum a historic Cheese making factory and it’s the quilting capital of the Northwest. Cool! Let’s start with the museum.
They did have a few planes but after visiting the PIMA museum in Tuscan it was a bit of a letdown. On the upside most of them looked like they were still used (lots of oil leaking from them and covered in dirt) and they were housed in a 7 acre hangar which used to be a Blimp base. The hanger was constructed during WW2 from wood and was impressive.
The lady in the campsite told us the Tillamook Cheese factory was really neat and the most visited tourist attraction in Oregon with more than a million visitors every year! So off we went. She appeared to be right about the visitors. There were queues to get in and once we were in we discovered why. The cheese factory also makes Ice Cream and they give it away free to visitors. The queues were hundreds of metres long and full of people who should not be eating any more Ice Cream. And the historic factory? You could watch large blocks of Cheddar getting wrapped in plastic by a modern stainless steel machine and see an underpaid worker pack it into larger cardboard boxes. We didn’t wait for the Ice Cream – The Quilting museum and shops were waiting…..
I can’t really comment on the Quilting stuff. I stayed in the van and stuck rusty needles through my eyeballs. The preferred option.
Inside the Hanger
Even the sheds are quilted!
