Author: Erica | September 29th, 2009 Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Oregon Shakespeare Festival is sort of a misnomer, as most festivals are temporary and relatively fleeting presences in a town. The OSF runs from February through November, occupies multiple permanent buildings in town, including the U.S.’s first Elizabethan Theater (a la the Globe), and brings in the major income source for the […]
Author: Erica | September 27th, 2009 Western Cascade Scenic Byway
It would be a simple matter to convince yourself that anything of importance in Oregon is along I-5, and many people do just that, which makes all the other amazing byways through the state that much better by mere fact that they’re almost unpopulated. Thanks to Sean’s penchant for studying the […]
Author: Erica | September 25th, 2009 Sean and I each spent four years in Portland, with two of those years overlapping, so coming back was kind of like putting on an old, comfortable pair of jeans. I just slipped right in as though it had been a week and not a decade.
Ned Ludd
Our first night in Portland, Margot and […]
Author: Erica | September 11th, 2009 Following the Greatest of Unions celebration, we joined forces with our friends Katya, Peter, Romi and Nika (here after referred to as KaPeRoNi) to venture out into the volcanic magnificence of central Oregon.
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Lava Lands at Newberry National Volcanic Monument
Apparently the middle of Oregon is one big volcano just waiting to explode […]
Author: Erica | September 8th, 2009 PICKS: Yachats
Oregon beach towns often have a thin veneer of small town kitschiness covering the blatant commercialism that keeps the town alive and running. Read: you go for the ocean, you leave with a bunch of crap and a lot less money. Yachats, however, has been able to maintain itself without inundating visitors with […]
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