Mary Lou, where did you go on vacations as a child?

Almost every year when I was growing up we went to Fort Stevens State Park near Warrenton Oregon. Everyone in our family of 4 loved it. Dad rented a travel trailer and we would bring it up from Toledo and camp out for the last 2 weeks of August. We would go to the ocean and nearby lake almost every day having the hard decision to make of which one to go to. Mardean, my sister, and I also loved to go to the nearby town of Seaside and walk up and down Broadway and the Boardwalk. We had lots of fun meeting guys our age and flirting! Mom and Dad loved it too because they had grown up in the area and still had friends there so they got to see and visit with them. Mom’s Mom and Dad lived in Warrenton so we got to see them a lot too, they often come out and roasted a hot dog for dinner with us. I first got a hula hoop at Fort Stevens and learned to drive a car on the beach there.

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