Oregon

I have been fantasizing about visiting Oregon for over a year. Search Oregon on Pinterest and you’ll see why. The whole state should be a National Park. The coast is gorgeous. It felt a lot like a Jurassic Park movie.  It’s like Maine in that the coast is primarily rocky. The old growth forest meets the Ocean. These pictures and my words can not convey its beauty.

When we left California into Oregon there was an agriculture check station on the other side of the road checking cars for fruits and vegetables going into California. The fruits we ate all the way from Tennessee across the country have been amazing!!! The raspberries, cherries, oranges, and strawberries don’t even taste like what we get in New England. We are spoiled now!

An interesting fact about Oregon, no self-serve gas. I pulled over to get cheap gas and jumped out to pump and a man met me at the pump. I said I wanted to pump my own, he said I couldn't; state law in Oregon, says it had to be pumped my an attendant. He also called me hun or darlin’ four times.

 We stayed two nights at the same KOA which was a treat not to have to pack up in the morning. Our second day we went inland to Silver Falls State Park for the waterfalls. we hiked 5 miles and saw 8 of the 10 waterfalls.

Then we drove the the Columbia River Gorge scenic area. It was amazing too. If I couldn’t live in Maine, I’d live in Oregon. 

Wildlife:
6 buzzards eating Roadkill
2 blue herons

1 Roadkill the buzzards were eating.

Gree’s senior park pass savings to date $ 375+