We wanted to stay for a night on the oregon coast, in a hotel overlooking the ocean.  Most properties like this are pretty expensive, even during weekdays.  The Windereme Motel was more reasonably priced, at $120 a night during the summer. …

Tonight it was 100 degrees inland so we headed to the coast for a picnic. We stopped at Arched Rock Beach on the Sonoma Coast State Beach.  Here are a couple of pictures.…

We stopped in Faro overnight. It's the capital city of the Algarve, Portugal's southern coast. This is the harbour. Faro is mainly a jumping-off point for the Algarve coast. There isn’t much to see or do there, and we’re glad we didn’t stay that long.…