Saturday evening , November 2, 2013 (Fifth travelogue of this trip).
We are just south of Portland at a Holiday Inn (map). We are staying here two night (using points – Yea).
Yesterday our trip continued up US 101 along the Oregon coast. One of our stops had a great view of the ocean. A couple of the people at the stop pointed out several sea lions swimming not too far from shore. Indeed, some were right below the cliff we were on. You could see them, but they don't show in the photos. We could even hear one “barking”. The photo below is from that location – the sea lions were out of the photo on the left.
We continued up the coast until just north of Lincoln City where we headed towards Portland on OR 18. Again this was a 200 mile day, but took many hours. Well worth it, however.
This is a planned stop so that I could visit the shop of a Bonneville racer. Marlo has been building a streamliner that is designed to be the fastest wheel drive car in the world – 550 MPH target. He has an amazing website (link). That website documents, in great detail, a project that was started over 14 years ago. I was involved in the early stages of the project when I was with Gates. We worked out the details of both the blower drives as well as the traction drives. The car has four wheel drive with a common drive shaft. The two blown alcohol engines are connected to the drive shaft via two unique belt drives.
The car is a work of art! Marlo said the he has recorded over 60,000 billable hours. Those hours are spread over several master craftsman whose work is phenomenal. I have included a photo of the car and the “carrier”. The carrier is also a mind boggling piece of “engineering”.
That is all for now.
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