State of Wilderness

Category: Travels

  • Olympic National Park: Hoh Rainforest

    The upper Oregon coast was stunning, and we would have liked to spend a little more time exloring Seaside and Astoria, but that day, we were on a mission. I thought it might take us a half day to drive from Nehalem to Forks, Washington, but like every other day on this journey, it took…

  • Astoria

    When we left Nehalem, we headed north along 101 towards Washington. We stopped for breakfast in Seaside, Oregon at a place called Pig N Pancake, which turned out to be quite good. Seaside would be an interesting place to come back to when it is not drizzly and wet outside. We were trying to make…

  • Nehalem Bay State Park

      Scenes from our early walk down to the beach at Nehalem Bay State Park. The tent camping at this park is ho-hum (lots of people around and nothing too terribly special or secluded about the campsites), but the yurts look awesome. We reserved too late to get a yurt, they were all full up.…

  • Oswald West State Park

    So this is one of the best places ever. We never would have gone to this place, either, if it hadn’t have been for Facebook. Both of us “like” National Geographic on FB, and they post a Picture of the Day. One day, the photo captivated both of us, and we were like, we should…