Who knew Oregon looked like this? I was born in Astoria, Oregon back in the 40s. And yes there is a lot of scenery on the coast of Oregon. And that's all I knew growing up and into...

Leeo Loc: Oregon

I was born in Astoria, Oregon back in the 40s. And yes there is a lot of scenery on the coast of Oregon. And that's all I knew growing up and into adulthood. Living and working in California, then being widowed and moving back to Oregon, remarried and living back on the coast. My wife was born in Baker City and desired to move back, which we did eventually with a lot of hesitation, then finding a new Oregon I never new existed. The sights never end or get old on the 45th parallel.

Leicaflex Loc: Cymru

traderjohn Loc: New York City

Leeo wrote:

I was born in Astoria, Oregon back in the 40s. And yes there is a lot of scenery on the coast of Oregon. And that's all I knew growing up and into adulthood. Living and working in California, then being widowed and moving back to Oregon, remarried and living back on the coast. My wife was born in Baker City and desired to move back, which we did eventually with a lot of hesitation, then finding a new Oregon I never new existed. The sights never end or get old on the 45th parallel.

So, what are those sights??

GalaxyCat Loc: Boston, MA

Welcome to UHH from a Bostonian! I love the East Coast, but I did drive all the way up the California, Oregon, and Washington Coast after visiting friends in Oakland, CA, and camping among the redwoods. I remember seeing cattle on the beach, while looking down a cliff on route 101, somewhere. It was very worrisome to see cattle on a beach below a cliff.

lamiaceae Loc: San Luis Obispo County, CA

GalaxyCat wrote:

Welcome to UHH from a Bostonian! I love the East Coast, but I did drive all the way up the California, Oregon, and Washington Coast after visiting friends in Oakland, CA, and camping among the redwoods. I remember seeing cattle on the beach, while looking down a cliff on route 101, somewhere. It was very worrisome to see cattle on a beach below a cliff.

Cattle on the beach? I wonder where that is. Even though I'm a lifetime Californian (born 1954). I am only really familiar with US 101 / SH 1 from Los Angeles to Monterey, CA. I've seen photos of people riding horses on the beach in CA. Though I do know many places in hilly places in CA with grazing Cattle, Horses, and Sheep along freeways and highways. They often use them to keep the wild "grass" short for wild fire control.

Vince68 Loc: Wappingers Falls, NY

Welcome to UHH. Enjoy each and every day exploring new found areas.

Keen

Oregon has a bit of almost everything.....cities, small towns, wildlife, beaches, mountains, deserts, forests, waterfalls, lakes, rivers, storms, car shows, nudist colonies, air museums, railroads, cruise ships, wineries, etc. Check out The Forest Grove Concours d' Elegance car show on July 21st. Then head for Crater Lake.....deepest lake in the USA.

EdJ0307 Loc: out west someplace

My mother was born in Oregon and grew up around Portland and Salem. Like you, she too had to move to California to find a job in her early 20s in the 1930s. She wound up in San Francisco, got married, had six of seven kids before moving to Dallas, Texas for a job transfer for my dad. Another job transfer found us back in Sacramento, California three years later.

One of those seven kids, my brother, lived in Astoria and worked as a Columbia River Bar pilot for years before he passed away about 15 years ago.

chapjohn Loc: Tigard, Oregon

Welcome. I am in Tigard, Oregon.

Brownie45 Loc: Louisville, Kentucky USA

Spent a week exploring parts od Oregon a couple of years back. I really enjoyed the High Dessert Museum near Bern, OR. Their raptor demo was a lot of fun.

oregonfrank Loc: Astoria, Oregon

My wife was born in Seaside (18 miles S of Astoria) and grew up in Astoria. After we married we moved to Astoria in 1980 and raised our children here. We live 5 miles outside of town on Hwy 202. Leeo you are welcome to contact me back channel (satterw@msn.com) if you wish.

drucker Loc: Oregon

I'm in Newberg, about 20 miles SW of Tigard. Moved here from Kansas for a job in 1970 but would move back to Kansas and the wide open plains in a heartbeat if all our kids and grandkids weren't within a few miles of us.

Western Oregon is beautiful, but the locals don't understand when I say it would be better if they would cut down the trees and level the mountains so I could see something. Where I grew up in western Kansas, we could walk out on the front porch and watch the sun come over the horizon, and in the evening go out and watch the sun go down over the horizon with only the barn and a few trees in the distance.

My wife tells me that that she can just feel me start to relax when we get to the flatlands of eastern Oregon when travel back to Kansas.

Kuzano

Correction... the High Desert Museum is located approx ten miles from BEND Oregon, largest population center in the middle of the state of Oregon. I live in Redmond Oregon, another 12 miles from High Desert Museum. Eastern Oregon, has as many beautiful sights as the Coast of Oregon and I used to visit the coast regularly. Now living on the high desert of Eastern Oregon, I get as many beautiful scenics as on the Coast.

Ignore Central and Eastern Oregon and rue the opportunities for fine photography you pass up.

traderjohn Loc: New York City

Leeo wrote:

I was born in Astoria, Oregon back in the 40s. And yes there is a lot of scenery on the coast of Oregon. And that's all I knew growing up and into adulthood. Living and working in California, then being widowed and moving back to Oregon, remarried and living back on the coast. My wife was born in Baker City and desired to move back, which we did eventually with a lot of hesitation, then finding a new Oregon I never new existed. The sights never end or get old on the 45th parallel.

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lamiaceae wrote:

Cattle on the beach? I wonder where that is. Even though I'm a lifetime Californian (born 1954). I am only really familiar with US 101 / SH 1 from Los Angeles to Monterey, CA. I've seen photos of people riding horses on the beach in CA. Though I do know many places in hilly places in CA with grazing Cattle, Horses, and Sheep along freeways and highways. They often use them to keep the wild "grass" short for wild fire control.

There are cattle on the coast just out of Ferndale California, and there are more just north of Crescent City and south of Brookings Oregon.

However, as near as I can recall neither of those locations is actually on 101. The location out of Ferndale is on a side road in the middle of no place in what is called the lost coast.