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<\/a><\/p>\nAn “added bonus”, since we knew nothing about the festivities in advance, so we kept our original\u00a0agenda\u00a0of relaxing and playing it by ear (sort of, I always have some plans in mind) We got started later than usual, Friday at noon after Cheryl got off work. We went straight through Reedsport in stead of stopping to make dinner at Mo’s in time. Besides, one of our favorite antique shops had closed and that would have been our only stop anyway.<\/p>\n
We got to Florence around 3:30-4, got checked into our room and went down to” Old Town” along the river. We did our shopping before going to dinner at Mo’s, a twist for us, as we usually have a lunch at Mo’s, then shopping. As usual, there were a few new shops and a few missing shops.<\/p>\n
Here are some pics of the Old Town area:<\/p>\n
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We did some antiquing the next day before leaving Florence, then on our way to Bandon we stopped at Winchester Bay so I could pick up some smoked salmon. I couldn’t resist so I got a crab cocktail while there, OMG! It was the best crab\u00a0cocktail\u00a0I’ve ever had and I consider myself quite the crab critique…<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Just next door to Winchester Bay is the Umpqua River Lighthouse and USCG barracks with the old USCG admin building, now a museum…<\/p>\n In Bandon we walked around the Cranberry Festival and shops till we dropped. Later we went to the Coquille River Lighthouse as the Sun was setting and to Face Rock to watch the Sun sink into the ocean.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The last day, on our way home we stopped at Misty Meadows and got more food souvenirs and we stopped at the West Coast Game Park Safari to see the baby Tiger and Leopard. Billed as the nations largest petting zoo, there are lots of deer and goats and other critters roaming freely about the park.<\/p>\n If you like, I have all the pics from our weekend HERE<\/a>\u00a0at\u00a0 …in Florence, there was a “Rods n Rhodies” car show thing going on down in Old Town and in Bandon they were having their Cranberry Festival…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,3,5,8],"tags":[100,101,99,102],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canon-sx-120is","category-family","category-interests","category-travel","tag-bandon","tag-cranberry-festival","tag-florence","tag-rods-n-rhodies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":591,"href":"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions\/591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"