When I was a wee one, my dad once took me and an elementary-school friend hiking in Muir Woods. I have no idea what my brother and my mom were up to then, but on this rainy, dreary day, the Dad-me-Carolyn triad bundled ourselves up and went down to the …
Did you know there’s a lighthouse on Sauvie Island? It’s one of two Oregon lighthouses that are not on the Pacific Ocean, the other being Willamette River Lighthouse — which actually burned down in the 1950s and doesn’t exist anymore. So that alone makes Warrior Rock Light kind of a …
Come November, it can get a little gloomy here in Portland. It’s dark when I leave my house for work in the morning; it’s dark when I leave work for home. For the last few rainy days, even in the height of afternoon it never actually felt like the sun …
Those of you in Portland are probably familiar with the Wildwood Trail, that famed, switchbacking, roundabout trail that snakes its way from one end of Forest Park to the other and then a few miles into Washington Park as well. It’s a fantastic thing to have nearby: 30.2 miles of …