The birthplace of Boeing, Grunge music and Starbucks coffee. The headquarters of Amazon and home to Google’s second largest office. The city where, according to Meg Ryan’s boss in Sleepless in Seattle, “it rains nine…
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From Seaside we drove north to the Olympic Peninsula, the northwestern most point of the contiguous United States and home to the spectacular Olympic National Park. The park protects nearly a million acres of pristine…
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From the Willamette Valley we drove across to the coast and north on the very scenic Oregon Coast Highway. We were headed to the Olympic Peninsula but en route we stopped for a couple of…
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We met a fellow at Columbia Gorge who informed us with some authority that the Trail of Ten Falls in Silver Falls State Park is ‘the most beautiful walk in Oregon’. We were headed to…
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The Columbia River begins in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia, flows into the USA in the state of Washington, then turns west to form most of the border between Washington and Oregon. 2,000km long…
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