Touristing on the Oregon coast in the fall is a mixed bag: the weather will be sunny and then rainy, and then foggy and cold, often in one day! So timing is important, and impossible to predict. Take last Tuesday, for example. I left my campsite on a sunny and warm day around noon and when I arrived at the road to the Cape Blanco lighthouse 30 miles south, I found nothing but fog. I couldn’t even see the road to the lighthouse, let alone the actual beacon of light supposedly able to save ships from the rocky coastline! So today, when…
Month: September 2016
The Serenity of Kalaloch
I couldn’t figure out the right word, if there was even just one, to capture my week at Kalaloch. And then my friend asked if my stay was bringing serenity into my life. And that was the word I didn’t even know I was looking for: serenity. From the north end of Kalaloch beach… To the south end… It is an amazing thing to experience standing on this particular edge of the North American continent. There are tide pools and geological rock formations that tell the area’s history in stone, and I’ll need whole other posts for those. This post…