Blogs from Oregon, United States, North America - page 14

We flew in late on Friday night. Chris had to work all day (I had the day off) so Arya and I picked him up from work at 3:30pm. We got dinner on the way to the airport, flew through security and had a long wait in the terminal. I made a valiant effort to exhaust Arya by repeatedly running up and down the "travelator"- she gave up somewhere around the 15th trip. Our flight took off at 8:10pm and we arrived sometime around 9:30pm. Anna was already in Portland at our Airbnb house rental, and she was ready with eclipse themed wine and beer. God bless that girl. Arya had slept most of the flight, and I was very grateful I had packed the wearable baby carrier this trip. Otherwise I'm not sure how we ... read more

August 2, 2017 Place: Portland, Weather: 77 and sunny Hours Driving: 4 hours States Drive Thru: Washington and Oregon Miles: 238 Restaurants: Subway Movies: Games: Books: Arf (Elizabeth), Dunkirk (Matt), El Elefante sin Memoria (Ben-for Spanish) Last night was our last night on the houseboat. We all slept very well on the boat. I'm a little surprised seeing that it wasn't the greatest mattress and Paul and I felt a little like our feet were higher than our heads just slightly. Yet, we boat slept well. Maybe it was the ever so gentle rocking. I mean gentle because any more than that might have had me at the Lake Union Courtyard. I woke up and brewed my coffee and went to the roof to watch the scullers (rowers) silently cutting through the water just as the ... read more

Mileage – 193.9 Total mileage for the trip - 4146 Today started out differently. We packed the rest of our bags with all that has to go back (except the few things we needed for today). After breakfast we got the rest of our stuff and headed to Parker. It was cloudy and cold. At least it wasn’t windy like last night. As we were driving down the road, it started to drizzle, but only drizzled for a few minutes. That was the longest rain we had on the entire trip. We drove along the Oregon coast – one of the 7 scenic wonders of Oregon. This is not North Carolina. You drive on the coast and all you see are trees and hills. I felt like we are driving in the NC Mountains. We tried ... read more

Mileage: 323.5 Got up early this morning and headed out to Smith Rock State Park. If you are a rock climber you know all about this park. One of its major attractions is Monkey Face. We got up early because we knew it was going to be a long day and we knew our activities were going to be in warm places, so we wanted to get to them as early as possible. Of course, we had to see Smith Rock Park, one of the 7 wonders of Oregon, since we were the Smith sisters. While we were there, we were able to get both the Smith Rock and the Three Sisters Mountains in one picture. Of course, we did a bit of hiking and rock climbing and got lots of pictures. We had to be ... read more

Mileage 247.8 The day started off with me stuck on stupid again. I couldn’t figure out how to turn off the water in the tub. But at least it wasn’t just me. Susan dropped her cutlery at breakfast and then ran the luggage cart into the wall. (oh yea, we stayed for a free night at Hilton Garden Inn and I scored 3 free breakfasts for us). Now at breakfast we had to tell Pam to get off her phone. After eating we did our usual pack up and start off. We headed to Salem to see the Capital building, and then headed towards Lebanon. There we found a covered bridge: The Hoffman Bridge over Crabtree Creek (who know Crabtree Creek went from Raleigh to Oregon.. ha.ha ) We got gas in Lebanon and remember in ... read more