Oregon Travel Blogs

We ended day two in Medford, Oregon. Our hotel is a very large U-shaped facility that goes back from the street at least a hundred yards.  Our room is along the back most area, well from the noise of the street our nearby freeway.  Tonight should certainly be a much quieter and sleep fill…

We ended the day in Medford, Oregon.  Dinner at Hometown Buffet, which was only about a half mile from our motel.  Then time to write some blog and upload a few pictures.  Hopefully we will be able to do it again everyday.    And tonight’s room is way at the back and t…

Our first day was basically car travel.  Visalia is pretty near the center of the state here in California, near the same distance from Los Angeles and San Francisco.  And only five miles away is old standby Highway 99 which is the old north-south highway through the San Joaquin valley.&n…

From June 26 to July 6, Minnesota to California in 10 days! 5000 Miles! Totally fun adventure with my two daughters, can't wait to do it again!!

Boring, Oregon, I have heard of it many times, I have even been through it  twice and didn’t even know it!  Supposedly Boring has a population of 12,800, but after hanging out there, I may have to doubt those figures a little…okay…a lot!  I didn’t see many houses or apartment…

I never realized how sparsely populated Eastern Oregon is.  I stopped at a wayside for a map and saw this Oregon Trail monument.  There was an old computer game I used to play as a kid and I loved it.  You pretend you're a pioneer on the Oregon Trail (wagon train).  So that…

Ashley (akalar09) had her birthday on July 8th and in wishing her well noticed that her profile picture could use some light changes, so I quickly downloaded it and went to work.  It didn’t take long to bring out her nice smile and the Eiffel Tower behind her and the magnificent clouds and s…

 (the title of this journal review comes from one of my favourite songs - Reba Mcentire - Fancy, me and Marty always play it really loud and sing along when im in Portland and we played it on the way to the airport to San Diego) I arrived in Portland back from Puerto Vallarta the evening befor…

Traveling west between Redmond and Sisters I took a couple of shots of some of the mountains of the Cascade range.

We decided to drive back to Portland on the Oregon side of the Columbia River, crossing at Astoria.  The causeway and bridge over the Columbia is is a engineering marvel -- very long and dramatic.  It's a four mile long crossing that was completed in 1966.  We were told that the seag…

So, finally we had everyone that we could manage to scrape together for a weekend of nonsensical debauchery.Six of us crammed into a tiny DaeWoo, somehow.  Mandy took us to lunch.  We met up with Lisa.  Let's have a round of mimosas!  Why not?  It's Jullian's birthday and i…

Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to take too many small trips this year and was getting a little down that the nice weather would soon end.  I hate cold weather and the summer weather in NYC has been very mild, which stinks.  All of June was a rain fest and July pretty much stayed…

These pictures are actually taken across the highway looking at Sparks Lake. Sparks Lake is about 25 miles west of Bend. We played around and hiked a bit. Got freaked out by some growling noises in the woods and the giant bees and had to evacuate!! Sparks Lake is an awesome place though to play in …

 Early in the morning  I hit the road in my  Toyota Prius and headed  for the southwestern Oregon town of  Grants Pass, where I spent that first afternoon and night.    The first thing you notice about the downtown area of  Grants Pass are the bizarrely paint…

This summer for Independence Day, I decided to leave the crappy sauna that is NYC and head out west to visit my family and friends in Portland, Oregon to escape the torture that is known as an East Coast summer.  I usually go back a few times a year and summer is a very good time.   Wes…