Category: travel
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It’s whimsy, OK? But it’s more than that. We stumbled on Stan Peterson’s work by accident, when a road trip we planned didn’t pan out and we needed a new destination. So. We’re lying on a blanket under a shady tree in Spokane’s Riverfront Park (wonderful, surprising, must-be-visited). We’re bummed because we can’t proceed to…
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Two-laners all the way. They make the best kind of road trip, and I am building my preference list one journey at a time. My current favorite, the daylong run from Eugene to Baker City. You motor up through the Willamette National Forest, skirting the shimmering McKenzie River and over the spine of the Cascades…
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The McKenzie River in Oregon flows from snowmelt filtered through the unique volcanic aquifer of the Cascades into icy springs that feed Clear Lake. To walk the trail around that lake, to see clear water that flows out of the lake to become the river that provides Eugene with its drinking water, that’s an experience.…
Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now 