Tag: Oregon
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Blue Eyed Bastards
In 2000, CD Damitio started writing a weird, surrealist noir about a drifter named Archie Walker and a bloodline of blue-eyed bastards. He abandoned it. He picked it up. He…
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Not My America: A Stranger in My Strange Land
CD Damitio came back to America after five years living abroad — ready to believe the country he’d left might still be the one he’d imagined as a kid reading…
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Beauty Strips – and the Failure of America
I grew up in logging country. Oregon, Washington, Northern California. In logging country they had something that people in the rest of the world may not be familiar with. It…
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Travel is Awful – Don’t travel – Travel Sucks
I’m not sure if it is the intersection of Covid-19, technology, and travel or if I’m just older and grumpier but the only conclusion I can reach is that travel…
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Vagobond Travel Museum – A Random Hitch-trip on Interstate 5
A true account of a hitch trip I took from Portland, Oregon to Seattle, Washington back in the year 2000.
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Vagobond Travel Museum: The Amtrak Amtrek Across the USA
Back in 2008, I left Hawaii and set out on an adventure that took me across the USA by Amtrak train, I called it the Amtrek. This week, for the…
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Liquid Gold Tour – Portland, Oregon’s Beer, Wine, and Saki Scene
Ahhh, if I’d only known what I have been missing, I’d have long ago staked a claim to Oregon’s Washington County.
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Places I’ve Lived #17 – Portland, Oregon
As a child I had to go through Portland a couple of times while taking Greyhound Buses from Myrtle Creek to see my grandfather in Tacoma and then in high…
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Places I’ve Lived #24 – Reedsport, Oregon
Since leaving Turkey (and even while I lived there), I’ve watched a beautiful country on the verge of an amazing future start to dismantle itself, create sectarian conflicts, and become…
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Bandon, Oregon – Gorgeous Undeveloped Pacific Coast
Every once in a while (but not often enough) we head down the coast to the beautiful town of Bandon, Oregon often called Bandon by the Sea. Â Founded in 1873…
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The Oregon Country Fair
Oregon Country Fair Every Summer in the woods outside of the little town of Veneta, Oregon – hordes of hippies, puppeteers, musicians, acrobats, nudists, herbalists, and assorted other oddballs assemble…
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A Visit with Dinosaurs in Prehistoric Gardens – A Highway 101 Roadside Attraction
Since 1955, drivers on Highway 101 along the Southern Oregon Coast have been able to walk among the dinosarus (23 if I counted correctly) at the Prehistoric Gardens between Gold…
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Tillamook, Oregon – Cheese Factory, Planes, and a Really Really Big Hangar
No trip up (or down) the Oregon Coast is complete without a stop in Tillamook, Oregon. While we haven’t had the opportunity to do all the fun things Tillamook (the…
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Introduction to the Oregon Coast
When I brought my family from Morocco in 2013, we were going to settle in the San Francisco Bay Area but I found that no one wanted to hire…
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Places I’ve Lived Ranked from Best to Worst with Top 10
This is actually, a very hard list to order – mainly because the particular time and experience I had in each place weighs just as heavily as the place itself.…
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Places I’ve Lived #16 – Florence, Oregon
I first went to Florence, Oregon in 1999 just before the excitement of the World Trade Organization Protests in Seattle. My hippie aunt and uncle had a cabin on a…
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Places I’ve Lived #6 – Myrtle Creek, Oregon
I have fonder memories of Myrtle Creek than my siblings do. I think it’s because I’ve blocked out much of the horror and mayhem. They refer to the place we…
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Places I’ve Lived #5 – Canyonville, Oregon
After a super ugly divorce in Big Bear Lake, California – my mom was ready to go as far away from my Dad as she could – my dad seemed…
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The Enchanted Forest Theme Park of Oregon #FlashbackFriday
Back in 2016, I finally had the chance to take my wife and daughter to The Enchanted Forest. A wonderfully quirky and crumbling roadside attraction that still doesn’t charge you…
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Camping Oregon’s Sunset Beach State Park in October
My Volkswagen Vanagon went into the shop yesterday for some much needed repairs – in celebration of that, I’m going to post this memory of  our first camping trip in…
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Flashback Friday: The Majesty and Magic of Mauna Kea on The Big Island of Hawai’i
I suppose I should give a bit of a personal history for the rest of this story to make sense. Here it is in brief – in 2017, I moved…
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My Last Oregon Garage Sale – God Willing
I used to love having garage sales. It was fun to let stuff go and meet who was taking it while making a little money at the same time. I…
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Lame Airline Security Helps the Homeless in Oregon
Just when you think that lame airline security isn’t doing anyone any good, it turns out to be helping homeless families and the homeless who want to be hygenic. Support…
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Determined trooper chases beaver
Okay…It’s a campy story…but who can resist a headline about a Trooper Chasing Beaver??? cd The Seattle Times: Local News: Determined Oregon trooper chases wandering beaver Determined Oregon trooper chases…
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Pa. May Let Hunters Use Prehistoric Weapon
This is sort of bizarre. I’ve seen these things before, there is a book by Larry Dean Olson that details how to make them and use them. It’s called Outdoor…
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