Where is the Beach?

After a week on the Oregon coast, I am still looking for the beach. I have glimpsed some of the coastline while driving but have not plopped down for the day on a blanket, in the sand, with a good book. I have not even walked onto a beach. Geography is the biggest problem. The…

Flip Side of Oregon

I have been to Oregon once before, in the 1970s, when I came to Corvallis to check out graduate school. I stayed in Arizona, so I have no practical knowledge about the state and its people. Based on news stories and political trends over the years, I pictured Oregon as one big, liberal college town. I…