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Crater Lake + nice surprises

“It’s time to go,” says Travis, so here goes:

Crater Lake National Park was underwhelming for us — this was partially our fault, and partially the fault of mother nature. We left Portland, Oregon early afternoon and weren’t slated to hit Crater Lake until around 5pm. This would have been fine on a normal [...]

Columbia River Gorge

I feel like I’m falling behind on blogging because I haven’t been able to post yesterday’s wanderings until today, which means I probably won’t do today’s until tomorrow. *sigh*

We started our day yesterday by trying one of the restaurants mentioned in our guidebook, a brunch place called Gravy. Our book describes [...]

Oregon Coast Wanderings

Today we left Seattle, WA and decided to tour the northern Oregon coast before driving to Portland, OR. We started out by driving towards Astoria, OR, which took us through Olympia, WA. I randomly remembered that Olympia was the capital of Washington, so (since I was driving) I decided we were stopping to [...]