Thursday: Oregon by the Lighthouses

The first stop this morning was at the Gold Beach, Oregon Visitor Center. The ladies there told me that the Cape Blanco Lighthouse was worth the 10-mile detour from US-101 on my trek north….they were right.  At Cape Blanco I met an amazing man (retired truck driver…we had an immediate connection) – he and his wife were volunteering at the lighthouse.  We talked for a while and then he handed me a map of lighthouses along the Oregon Coast and told me a little about each of them.  He was inspirational enough that I dubbed the rest of my day “Oregon by the Lighthouses.” And off I went…