We took our tandem out the other day and rode the path parallel to Marine Drive along the Columbia River. We only did about 10 miles, but it was a gorgeous 10 miles. (At home we have a shiny aluminum Santana Sovereign tandem that we sometimes ride…) The nice thing…
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Our next stop will be hiking the waterfalls at Silver Falls State Park. The last time we were there it looked like this: It was actually quite lovely and we had fun cooking BBQ in the snow. I'm hoping for some hiking weather this time though, so we can do…
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Apparently, even though these are a relatively "new" oyster they've been around a few years and we're slightly late to the party, but whatever, we're here now and we'd like some of that there champagne punch, please! These are called Shigoku oysters, and they come from Taylor Shellfish Farms in…
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All that incredible sunny weather at the coast and wouldn't you know the day we're heading back into Portland it's all gray and drizzly?? Perfect! We used it all up! We waited for the high tide to recede a bit and then went for a walk on the beach before…
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I took a quick photo of our dinner last night to post with this recipe, but the photo is really terrible. iPhone photos at night of food just really aren't very appetizing, so I'm going to borrow this photo from allrecipes.com where I looked up the basic ingredients people used…
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Yesterday we stopped at Fred Meyer in Florence to pick up a few ingredients for last night’s crab enchiladas: avocados, tortillas, sour cream and cilantro and half and half for the white sauce, and a bottle of A to Z pinot gris. We brought our items up to the front…
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We stopped in Florence on our way north to visit with my great aunt Zelma (101 years old) and her daughter, Dolores (my second cousin). It was a short but very nice visit. At 101 years of age, I really need to get in all the visits I can with…
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Wanna know how much stuff we just packed into our last day here at the bottom of the Oregon Coast? 1. Drove down towards Brookings, OR and stopped to check out the campground at Harris Beach. This campground looks amazing and it's now on our list of places to stay…
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We went for a nice beach hike this evening. I Lucy'd out on the rocks (not too badly though…I counted only nine small ones I'd pocketed, and one of them might even be an agate. I need to learn what an agate looks like.) Good sea foam: When we got…
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I checked the tide tables this morning and figured out when low tide was (right around noon) so we took a drive down to Boardman State Park (about 17 miles south of Gold Beach) where there was supposed to be some good tidepooling…or as it says in the visitor's…
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