The View from a Drawbridge

Tag: oregon

  • Lava River Cave

    Nature. Awesome.

  • Tillamook Creamery

    Because… cheese.

  • Signs Along the Way

    Signs can give you a feel for a place.

  • 10 Day Album Challenge #4: Haley Heynderickx, I Need to Start a Garden

    She has a smoky voice that grips you, surrounds you, travels through you.

  • Stupid, Stupid Boy

    So, it’s fairly certain that one of the biggest fires in Oregon at the moment was started by a 15-year-old boy playfully throwing a smoke bomb into a ravine while hiking in the woods. To hell with burn bans. The world is one big video game! Woo hoo! If we destroy everything, we just hit…

  • A Romantic Vacation for One

    This is a story I told at a recent gathering here in Seattle called Fresh Ground Stories. The theme this time was, “You can’t always get what you want.” Normally, when I tell a story at this event, I am able to attach a recording of it here. Sadly the recorder crapped out, so I…

  • I Dream of Voodoo Doughnuts

    When I was planning my trip to Oregon, I asked local friends for suggestions as to what to do while there. Several of them said “Voodoo Doughnuts!” Well, the name alone intrigued me, and since I’d be passing through Portland, it found its way into my itinerary. I went to their website to get their…

  • Sand Dunes in Oregon

    Fortunately, I’ve had very few “almost drove off the road” moments in my life. One time I was cruising along in Florida and a really big (as in, larger than the palm of my hand) hairy spider ran across my windshield. On the inside. In my efforts to kill it before it killed me, I…

  • Amanda’s Awful Adventure

    In the delightful little town of Yachats, Oregon (pronounced YA-Hots) you will stumble upon the beginning of the Amanda Trail. This got me curious. Who was Amanda, and why did she merit a 3.7 mile trail from Yachats to the top of Cape Perpetua, the highest point on the Oregon coast? When I inquired at…

  • Exploring Oregon: Shore Acres State Park

    I just got back from a week’s vacation on the Oregon Coast, and there is much to talk about, indeed. It’s gorgeous there in so many unexpected and delightful ways that I’ll be writing quite a bit about it. But I wanted to one of my very first Oregon entries to be about one of…