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  Pacific City, Oregon
Thursday, September 24, 1981

  My first stop of the day was at the Tillomook Visitor Information Center.  I always like to get state maps because my atlas doesn't have enough information and and state maps will often point out more interesting places to see.  Next a couple of chores.  First to the YMCA to get a shower-.25.  What a deal.  I've talked about Y's in other parts of my blogs, how they have changed their mission over the years and no longer provide sevices for those at the lower end of the ecomomic spectrum.  People don't want poor people around them.  I really appreciated being able to get cleaned up for cheap when I was traveling and living in my van and there were a lot of other people who also used this service, but I doubt if there is a Y today where you can still go in and pay for a shower.  The last time I tried they wanted to charge me for a one day trial membership-$15 as the only way to use thier facilities.  There is a lot of talk about homeless people these days and how to help them, but it is always to do it somewhere away from everybody else. 
  Anyway next it was time to wash my cloths so it was a stop at the Little Cheese Coin Op.  Three times in the drier and my clothes were still not dry but I wa anxious to get to the ocean so I threw them around the van to finish drying out and headed west.
  I first the coast north of Tierra del Mar and stopped along the beach road to take a walk on the beach and look for a place to set up my easel. I went back to the van and pulled up further on a cliff overlooking the ocean and did a painting of Haystack Rock.  I have no idea what I did with it but I must of sold it while I was traveling and I just have a poor scan of a slide I took of it along with three other paintings I had finished. As ususal I was trying to save money on slides and what I often did was just lay the pictures next to each other on the ground and take a picture of all at once, so please excuse the poor quality of the reproduction I show. 
  After finishing the painting I contiued south along the coast a short distance until I was even with Haystack Rock and I pulled into the beach parking lot and decide to spend the night.  after taking a couple of photos I grabbed a small pizza and coffee from  The Patio.  then I retired to my home on the beach for a pleasant night, listening to the surf as I fell asleep.
  Day 29, 58.7 miles for the day-5210.3 miles from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific.  Many of the photos and prints of the paintings can be found on redbubble.com http://www.redbubble.com/people/greenvanartusa  for originals if I still have them contact me direct through my web site http://home.earthlink.net/~greenvanartusa/

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