After exploring Fort Stevens, we mapped a way to Cannon Beach via Seaside, two very touristy towns. I wanted to check out Haystack Rock and some of the beaches and hopefully have lunch somewhere on the water. It was very cloudy when we started out; but as soon as we arrived in Cannon Beach, the sun came out and it was warm with a small breeze, practically perfect weather once we got there.
Once you get a bit south of the town center (chock full of tourist shops) it 
gets a lot nicer. But there wasn’t anywhere on the water that would allow us to bring Dusty; so after a short while, we headed back north to see if we could find the Mexican restaurant we had passed. All the pet friendly places were right on the main drag of the town, within a few feet of traffic and all the car exhaust. It’s Hwy 101, a busy road on a summer afternoon, not what I would call a great place to have a meal; although you couldn’t tell that from the jam-packed patios, so we kept traveling. It was bizarre that as we left Cannon Beach, the cloud cover socked us in again and it started to drizzle like they are in some sort of weather bubble.
We never found the Mexican place and decided to stop at a small place on the highway called Ruby’s Kathy had noticed on the way south earlier, not part of the chain of the same name; and they had a dog on their signs, so how bad could it be… It was a pretty cool little place where Dusty was welcomed inside. Kathy had a large chef salad and I got the day’s special, 1/2 rack of short ribs. They were very good. They weren’t Phil’s ribs, but the next best thing to them!
We headed back to Fort Stevens after our late lunch.