First, I am going to tell you a little bit about what we did yesterday. We have been asked to come and tour the Reddy Ice plant here in Coos Bay. The owners (two brothers) of the camp ground where we have been all summer, also own and run the Reddy Ice plant. We have been wanting to see how they make the ice, we have been selling, and everyone buys to keep there favorite drink or food cold.
It was real interesting how they do it.
They run water over these racks and freeze the water, when it is all frozen they run hot water thru the lines and it fractures' the ice and it falls into the hopper below and it starts all over again. It takes about 10 to 15 minutes for a cycle to be completed. From there it is augured into another room where it is a hole lot cooler.
Cyndy stepped into this room for about 30 seconds and was out again. Anyway in this room they kind of have a big bind where the ice is tumbled and dried to -10 degrees so that it keeps that clear look that the ice has. It is kind of hard to explain but it was cool in that room with all the air moving around too!!! I was glad to get out of their too.
Here is were all the ice is bag and put on pallets for the cooler and out into the trucks for all the different stores here in Oregon. I don't remember the number of bags that they do in an hour but they ship out about 90 to 150 pallets a day. For a small opreration they send a lot of ice out.
Each one of these pallets have 200 bags on it.
The rest of the day we waited for our check and finished packing the trailer for the early drive today.
The last day here was beautiful, but we are looking forward to heading back home. Last night Steve and Laverne took us out for dinner and to thank us for helping them this last season. We had a good time working for these people and we have gained another couple that we can call friends forever. We had a lot of fun last winter with these two and look forward to see them again this winter, just not as a employee. We are planning two trips to the desert, one for the Roughneck Rendezvous Off-Highway Geocaching Adventure and the other is for the 4x4 event the first weekend in March!!!
This morning we got on the road early because it has been a while, and we were just itching to get going. It has been a while and we didn't have any problems at all. I like the new gears that I put into the rear end 463's and the new exhaust brake I had installed called a BD.
Here are a few pictures of our trip north to Seaside.
It was a cool drive along the coast, being from this area it is not surprising that it is overcast.
Turbo setting where he gets the best view.
The king of our rig, yep Turbo!!!
The trees are really leaning from the wind of the coast, you see this a lot along 101!!
It is amazing some of he pictures Cyndy takes.
Cyndy's favorite stop along the Oregon 101, Lincoln City's Outlet Malls.
We seen these on a lot of Barns here in Tillamook County, with a pattern from a quilt painted on them. We had a good drive, it was nice and slow and enjoyable sights. I know that these two lane roads are good for a nice ride and not being in a hurry to get any where fast!!! We made it to Seaside and looking forward to seeing some friends that are here.
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