My Travels: Lincoln City

Sharon, Kris, Olivia, Judy, Barbara S, and I headed out to Lincoln City for our annual summer beach weekend. We are missing Joyce but she is in Bahrain right now with her daughter and family. We met at Sharon's at 10 am and packed up the 3 cars: Sharon went with Judy, Kris went with Olivia & I went with Barbara S. First stop was Ponzi Vineyard. What a gorgeous place. It is a relatively new facility.

Judy matches the lavender.

Waiting for 11 am when they opened the doors. Kris, Barbara S, Olivia, Sharon and Judy

Olivia and Barbara S. We shared 3 tastings. So that the drivers could have tastes and the passengers could finish up the tastings. I bought a bottle.

Then we headed off to Anam Cara which means Friends of the Soul.

Cute little place in Newberg.

Judy, Olivia, Kris, Barbara S, me and Sharon.

Very good wines. I bought a bottle. By this time we were ready for lunch. We went to The Recipe in Newberg. We sat under a big cherry tree. In hindsight we should have sat inside. We were getting pretty hot by the time we left, in spite of the shade.

Delicious meal. I had the Croque Monsieur and a glass of wine. I guess one of the hits was the cantaloupe gazpacho. I did not have any, but Kris and Sharon raved about it.

Then we headed off to Domaine de Broglie. We had been to this place before but it had changed hands, so we wanted to check it out. It was a beautiful location.

But once we got there and thought about it, we all decided that we just wanted to head off to the beach. So, no more tastings. Sharon and Judy stopped at Safeway to pick up some dinner.

The house we were going to stay at had some kind of flooding situation. I got a call a week ago about this. They said that the house was not ready for us and would we mind being upgraded to a different house with no additional cost. I said OK.

What a fabulous house. We got here about 5 pm. It is a 3 bedroom, 4 bathroom place with a huge living room and a sitting room, beach front property. Very classy place with not the typical beachy decor. Too bad that we will never be able to come here again. It is way out of our price range. But we will certainly enjoy it.

Stairs up to our house.

One of the pieces of art.

The view.

Judy, enjoying the deck.

We pulled out our appetizers and wine. After a while we decided that we would just eat appetizers and save the dinner that Sharon and Judy bought, for the next night.