7-16-04
Oregon Coast

I didn't get on the road until after noon today. Made good time down to Portland and then out to Tillamook where I got gas and had dinner before heading out to the coast.

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I ended today by helping out some people who didn't deserve help but I helped them any way. These two fools got drunk and stoned, then they got the bright idea to drive on to the beach in their Pontiac Fiero and do doughnuts. I was only a matter of time before they got stuck and they had the bad luck to do it well below the high tide line. I pulled up to watch the sunset at this beach and noticed a good sized group of people trying to dig this car out. I struck up a conversation  with a older lady who lived on the beach and was watching from near the road. She told me about how these two fools had blasted out on to the beach a couple of hours ago and got stuck, we agreed that having their car flooded served them right. then she and I realized that if their car got flooded that there would be allot of oil and gas washing up on the beach for days afterward. So I hopped in my truck and drove out on to the beach to save them from them selves. I came around them so I was pointed back at the road and stopped and that is where I made my mistake. The sand was very soft and I ended up stuck. No biggie I locked in my hubs manually and put the truck in 4 low, next I got my shovel out and dug out from in front my tires. I was able to power right back to the road where I got back on the firm sand and headed back out to get the car unstuck. This time I stayed on the wet sand and hooked these guys up while they dug the sand out from around their tires. These two idiots managed to really annoy me before I had been there more than two minutes. I hooked to their frame and jerked that car out of the hole they had dug them selves in to, and I wasn't gentle about how I pulled it out. I had no sooner unhooked my chains than they took off. They had managed to spin 2 tires off the wheels and it sounded like they had burned their clutch out as well. I got back to the road and took a few pics of the sunset before heading out for a place to spend the night. I ended up in a rest area just south of Pacific City, OR

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