by Linda Aksomitis | Mar 25, 2017
Pretty may be too mundane of a word to describe Portland, Oregon, with its more than 11,000 acres in its Parks & Recreation system, but pretty it is. A city of green spaces, you’ll find bigleaf maples, red alders, and Oregon white oaks, along with evergreens...
by Linda Aksomitis | Sep 25, 2016
The Pacific Coast Highway, Highway 101, is the one of the most well known road trips in America–and with reason! Day 5: Oregon’s Pacific Coast Scenic Byway to California’s Redwood Highway No matter what name it goes by, Highway 101 is an...
by Linda Aksomitis | Sep 24, 2016
Some days on a road trip are so spectacular they stand out forever. This was one of those days. Day 4: Condon, Oregon, to Florence, Oregon The John Day Highway from Condon, to our turn onto the Oregon 207 Highway into Mitchell, was as scenic as Day 3 on the trip. Lots...
by Linda Aksomitis | May 6, 2016
There’s something about the comforting sway of a bunkbed, whether it’s on a train on land, or a boat at sea, that makes it easy to sleep. At least for me, anyway! But get up I did, for the third day of my Amtrak trip–riding the Coast Starlight Train down the...
by Linda Aksomitis | May 4, 2016
My train adventure continued on Sunday, April 3, 2016, with Day 2 of my three day journey from Williston, ND, to Oxnard, CA. Sunday morning, I woke up to miles and miles of wind turbines strung out along the hilltops like a row of paper dolls all cut from a single...
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