Oregon Wine Country

We are staying in McMinnville, OR, in the Willamette Valley wine country. We tasted some really great Pinot Noir's today and had one for dinner last night. It's hard to judge which are better: those from Santa Barbara County (Sideways country) or those from here. These are really exceptional! We can't take any more wine into Canada, so didn't buy any. Could ship but decided to wait.

Here we are picnicking at Elk Cove Winery which friends (and neighbors) told us about. Absolutely perfect weather.




Our RV park is right next to the Evergreen Aviation Museum. We didn't know anything about it or even that it is here. There are four giant buildings. Three of them house the old airplanes, one of which is the Spruce Goose, which Evergreen acquired in the late 90's when Long Beach sold it. They moved it here, renovated it and built a huge building for it. The fourth building houses a giant indoor water park with four slides and a wave pool. On top of the building sits an airplane, and the slides come out of this plane! Quite a sight! If our grandkids were here, we would go there. They would love it.



You will notice that there is a vineyard between where I was standing and the building. I was running on the nature trail that circumnavigates the museum campus through a beautiful deciduous forest. Quite the thing.

Below are more photos of the buildings. The visible planes are just the ones outside. Many are inside as well, which we will see tomorrow.













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