Ever so slowly, I was acclimating to not being on midnight shifts. It helped immensely that we were on the West Coast a full two hours behind central time, but by Sunday, October 15 I actually felt sort of human. A long night of sawing logs (you’d have to be crazy not to be exhausted …
Tag Archives: Oregon 2023
Oregon Coast: Drift Creek Falls
(This is part two of the post series covering our October 14 along the Oregon coast. Previously, I wrote about our drive up the Oregon Coast Highway from Newport to Pacific City). It had already been an incredible day by any measure. Volcanic beaches, seals, lighthouses, whales, arches, rocks, big waves, tiny rivers, and beer: …
Oregon 2023: Newport to Pacific City
When I set out to start writing this close to two weeks ago, I’d planned on a super-post covering everything my parents, Elizabeth, and myself did on October 14, 2023 in Oregon. Over 2,500 words later, I realized that that was a fool’s errand. We just did too much, saw too much, and I have …
Oregon Coast: Day 1
There are 50 states in the U.S. Over my lifetime, I had visited 39 of them. That put me 9 states behind my parents, who are looking to wrap up their trip to every state next summer in Hawaii. Before they can reach 50, they have to get 49. And to get to 49, they …
