We love cheese. We love to fly. Tillamook Cheese is in Oregon. Not far from the Tillamook Airport. Perfect. Last year we flew to Tillamook Airport and then rode our bikes to Tillamook Cheese. It's about a 20-30 minute ride. Good exericse. Gotta work off the cheese somehow.
This year, Kim, Joanna, Miss M and Kenny were with us and they don't have bikes (yet). So riding was not an option. Luckily the Tillamook Airport has a courtesy car that we borrowed. Actually it's a truck and we couldn't all fit at once. Well Miss M wanted us to sit in the tray and just do one trip, but it's not really legal so we passed on that idea and made two trips.
Upstairs in the visitors centre is the viewing platform, where you can watch the factory at work. Yes, they are big bricks of cheese.
Downstairs is the tasting station. We may or may not have stopped at the tasting station first, then gone upstairs to view the factory and then back down to the tasting station. Just saying. My favourite is the Vintage White Extra Sharp Cheddar. Hubby liked the Pepper Jack.
Once we were done tasting, we had to buy. Squeeky cheese and a small block to have as appys back at camp. And a brick to bring home. Those bricks below are 5lbs each. We didn't buy them. We thought about it, but we went with smaller versions.
Tillamook Cheese doesn't only make cheese. They make ice cream too. And of course we had to taste it. We didn't buy any to take home. No cooler in the plane. Mmmm, now there's an idea.
And one last look at all that cheesy goodness.
The view of Tillamook Cheese Factory and Visitors Centre as we flew back to Nehalem Bay.