When I was in third grade my teacher, Mrs. Crane...or was is Ms. Crane... used to show her class slides of her vacation to Hawaii. It was kind of cool to learn about volcanoes but also weird to see my teacher in her vacation clothes. When I got older I thought about those slide shows and the fact that perhaps we were the only people she had to show them to and I felt bad for her. Now here I am with a bunch of pictures of my vacation to Oregon from between Christmas and New Years...and no one to really show them to. So please indulge a poor single girl and look at my slide show like I did for my teacher all those years ago, but don't feel bad for me. It may not have been Hawaii, but it was a really nice break from the cold and snow of Utah in the middle of winter and it was a fun little road trip with my parents. I had a hard time narrowing it down and you'll think I didn't do a good job, but believe me I did, I take
a lot of pictures. I didn't include any of myself in weird 80's cabana clothes either.
First driving to Oregon through Northern California...
ghost towns
moss and mushrooms were on EVERYTHING
geocaching
taking a break for car sickness...and more geocaching
Klamath
And finally Oregon....it was raining
Dad at Kissing Rock. I like how the rock really does look like it's kissing
gortex kept me dry for only so long. If only I'd had a full body suit made from it I might have been ok...maybe
A cool trail I ran down for about a mile but sadly didn't get to see the end of. It was a river, sometimes a lake, sometimes a tunnel, and I discovered too late... contaminated with poison oak :(
there was ocean on both sides of me but the trail kept going forward. I followed it as far as I could before my parents called my phone and said I had to come back
sea stacks and waterfalls. These two pictures are next to each other and if I knew how I'd have taken them better and knitted them into a panoramic or something
the only time we got mom out of the car on the first really rainy day. By this point I was soaked to the skin everywhere I may as well have gone in the ocean.
Trail through the dunes to the sea from our hotel room in Gold Beach, Oregon
view from the room...and my parents out taking a walk below
little lighthouse at the hotel
Battle Rock Park...site of a crazy sailor vs. Indian battle with the sailors all stuck out on the point.
up close of the beach at Battle Rock Park
A big driftwood tree with his huge roots was on the beach and there was a nice view through the middle of them
storms out at sea at Cape Blanco. The most western point on the lower continental 48 states. There's still a working lighthouse out at the end.
It was really windy out there...
I think it kinda looks like Ireland
the sun and clouds looked so awesome as we were driving away I yelled at my dad to stop the car and jumped out to take these pictures...they're some of my favorites from the whole trip.
Hiking at Port Orford Heads State Park...geocaching swag
A little cove they used to launch life boats out of in storms...it was pretty cool
All the rain created waterfall everywhere..some big some little. This was a little one in the parking lot at Humbug Mountain State Park
My mom...I'm not sure where I took this but that's Humbug Mountain in the background so it was somewhere along the way
There was a little spot called The Sisters that I wanted to go see for some reason I can't remember, but it was pretty. It hailed on us at least 3 times so I gave up wanting to go down to the water and we just enjoyed the views from halfway.
1 comment:
Beautiful photos! I thoroughly enjoyed looking through them. :)
Post a Comment