Our last excursion with my parents was a trip to Portland. Eric and I have hit the apartment hunt pretty hard, and we had a few appointments to see some contenders, so we made a day of it. We’re still not very good Portland tour guides, as we don’t live there yet and still have…
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touring oregon with the smiths (bend).
While my parents were in town, we wanted to show off our latest love: Bend, Oregon. It’s directly east of Eugene, just on the other side of the Cascades. We took the McKenzie Pass (a road that cuts through the mountains and is only open late June-October) to get to Bend, but first we drove…
touring oregon with the smiths (the coast).
I declare this the finest Oregon coast weather we’ve ever experienced. Generally, when we head to the coast, it’s cold, windy, rainy, or cloudy. This day was 70-degrees and glorious. We started out at the sand dunes in Florence (South Jetty Beach parking area #3, where you need your Northwest Forest Pass, or to pay…
touring oregon with the smiths (eugene).
We’ve lived in good ol’ Eugene for about 2 years now, and my parents finally got to come visit us for the first time at the beginning of July. I was so excited to see them, since we only get to see each other about once a year at this point (Oregon and Michigan are…
touring oregon with the ringers: eugene.
We stayed local for our last day with Eric’s parents in Eugene. After a trip to the coast and to the Cascade Mountains, we wanted to show them a little of the actual town where we live. We started with breakfast at Hideaway Bakery, followed by a walk around Hendricks Park (which is far less…
touring oregon with the ringers: eugene to bend.
We headed east for the second day of touring Oregon with Eric’s parents. We could effectively call this day, “waterfall day,” as we checked four waterfalls off the to-do list. We started with a trip down McKenzie Highway (126) to Sahalie Falls. We parked in the lot there, walked a few steps to the viewpoint…
touring oregon with the ringers: eugene to the coast and back.
Eric’s parents came to visit us in Eugene last weekend, making us the northernmost stop in their road trip from San Diego. We haven’t seen them since we spent Christmas in San Diego (the trouble with living so far from family is that we rarely get to see anyone), so we were excited to show…
a touring oregon itinerary.
I put a lot of time into planning my pal’s visit to Oregon. I know it can be really difficult to come up with things to do when people visit (although that doesn’t seem to be much of a struggle here in Oregon), so I compiled an easy itinerary of all the big stuff we…
touring oregon with the family (day 3).
Sunday was our last day of fun with the Ringers before they headed back to California. We started the day with a breakfast that is undeniably Oregonian- VooDoo Doughnuts. There’s absolutely nothing healthy about this place, but the crazy sugar combinations are really fun (and tasty!). I’m partial to the chocolate cake donut with chocolate…
touring oregon with the family (day 2).
We started our Saturday with breakfast at the Humble Bagel, which is quickly becoming my favorite breakfast place in Eugene, mostly due to the enormous quantities of marionberry cream cheese they generously slather on my whole wheat cinnamon raisin honey bagel. Oh, so good. I’m drooling a little bit. After carbo-loading, we headed west to…
touring oregon with the family (day 1).
Eric’s parents and sister came to visit over the weekend, acting as our first guests in this new state. Of course, this gave us a great excuse to get out and explore. We started our Friday morning with breakfast at Glenwood Restaurant, where Eric and I ate on our University of Oregon visit a little…
a smoky oregon tour.
What’s better than two Kentuckians in Oregon? Three Kentuckians in Oregon! Our friend, Mallory, who we met back home at UK, and now lives an incredibly awesome and interesting life on a farm near LA, came to visit! We haven’t had a ton of visitors from home since moving to Oregon (as Oregon is quite…
explOregon
We moved to Oregon in September 2012, and we’ve done our best to explore this beautiful state. Here’s a compilation of our travels and adventures. Eugene Area Detering Orchards – September 2013, July 2014 Eugene Marathon Geocaching Hendricks Park Horse Rock King Estate Winery Mt. Pisgah- January 2013, May 2013, July 2014 Mt. Pisgah…
oregon adventures (day 3).
We spent the third day of Becca’s visit at the coast. The Oregon coast is absolutely gorgeous, and about as different as it can get from the east coast. The cliffs just drop off into the ocean. It’s fantastic. I haven’t been to the coast since our trip last November, which seems crazy since we’re…
oregon adventures (day 2).
So, I had the goal of updating the ol’ blog at the end of each day during Becca’s stay in hopes of remembering everything that we did. Obviously, that didn’t happen, but hopefully I’ll be able to keep it all straight. For the second day of Becca’s Oregon adventure trip, we started our morning with…