Earlier this fall we introduced Stay22.com, a new travel booking website that combines search results for hotels with Air B&B. We like Stay22 because it allows our readers to find larger, more family-friendly properties with ammenities like dish washers...
The 2021 Roadtrips Trips 16 Famous Writers Want You To Take
Sixteen writers, whose names you have no doubt heard of (Cheryl Strayed, anyone?), were tapped for a list of trips they wanted people to take in 2021. These destinations are places that they feel are particularly important in helping...
Travel to Tahiti During the Pandemic? Part 1
Travel to Tahiti during the pandemic? Does that seem like a crazy thing to do? I can’t recommend that everyone travel during the pandemic, because there are a lot of obvious reasons why not to. But I went to...
Must Have Beach Gear for Families
There’s something about a beach vacation that brings out the kid in all of us. From building sandcastles to collecting seashells, flying kites, or simply splashing in the waves, some of our best family memories have unfolded in unstructured...
Christmas Lights at The Village Green 2020
2020 has been a year like no other. Our holiday traditions that we often took for granted have surely changed. In some cases, the change isn’t bad, it’s just different. One of the traditions that had to change this...
Fens and Cobra Lilies: Darlingtonia State Natural Site
Darlingtonia State Natural Site is a state park and botanical preserve located five miles north of Florence, Oregon, United States on U.S. Route 101, just west of Mercer Lake and south of Sutton Lake that is dedicated to the...
Oregon’s Waldo Lake: Clear Water, EPIC Biking, Mosquitoes
With a depth of 420 feet and a surface area of nearly ten square miles, Waldo Lake is the second largest natural alpine lake in Oregon after Crater Lake. Classified as non-alkali, Waldo Lake does not support plant growth...
Five Places to Visit in Astoria, Oregon
Just ten miles southeast of where the mighty Columbia River meets the Pacific Ocean, Astoria, Oregon was first settled by rugged individuals with strong work ethic and an enterprising and entrepreneurial spirit—fur traders, pioneers, fisherman, tradesmen, loggers, soldiers, immigrants,...
