We hit the road Sunday morning. Our destination was Silver Falls State Park, Oregon’s largest at 9000 acres, and home to an awful lot of water falling off cliffs.

Last weekend we visited Astoria, Oregon for Valentines Day weekend . . .

Wow, what a weekend.

In the same spirit as Memorial Day Weekend winery open houses, breweries across the state open their doors for tours and samples on Saturday, February 14th from 11am to 4pm.

As luck would have it the weekend we chose to make a trip to the coast featured prime storm watching.

Surprisingly there are no bike hearses in use at cemeteries in bike-obsessed Portland, though it’s probably just a matter of time.

The Golden Spurtle trophy will be coming to Oregon!
Matthew Cox, of Milwaukie, Oregon’s own Bob’s Red Mill today was named the 2009 World Porridge Making Champion.
A spurtle, besides just a fun word to say, is a wand-like thing usually made of wood that is traditionally used to stir porridge while it cooks (and yes, [...]

When we last left off, Heather and I were in Elko, Nevada visiting my brother and his family. On the return trip we decided to make a stop at Oregon’s only National Park, Crater Lake, which neither of us had ever visited.

We arrived early enough to secure a camp site at [...]

For the second time this summer, Heather and I camped at Camp Creek, a campground a few miles past Rhododendron on Highway 26 in the Mount Hood National Forest.
Our first visit was in June. And it rained. But the camp sites are spacious and surrounded by huge Douglas Firs, and the creek’s babble [...]

Labor Day approaches and the summer begins to blur. But as I anticipate the fall festivals I thought it would be a good exercise, and reminder for next year, to list the summer events and festivals I missed this summer that I don’t want to miss next year.
Junction City’s Scandinavian Festival – It was [...]