Friday, January 22, 2010

Oregon

There's polygon, hexagon, pentagon and... Oregon.
OREGON

Portland
Powell’s Bookstore
Children’s Museum
Oregon Maritime Museum
Oregon History Center
American Adventure Museum
Pittock Mansion
World Forestry Center
Int’l Rose Test Gardens and Japanes Garden (Washington Park)
Hoyt Arboretum
Underground Portland (secret rooms and tunnels run along waterfront)
Mus of Science and Industry
Coffee People (coffee and people watching)
Besaw’s (breakfast)
Saturday Market (also held Sundays)
Heathman Hotel’s (tea)
Jake’s Famous Crawfish/Jake’s Grill
Justa Pasta Co
Cadillac Cafe (breakfast)
Irving Park (water fountain)
Nostrana (pizzeria)
JaCiva’s (7th Heaven chocolate torte)
Granny’s Shortbread (at coffee shops, handmade, many varieties)
The Heathman Restaurant (crabcakes Benedict, sidewalk dining)
Byway’s Cafe (corned beef junkie, blue corn pancake, amaretto French toast, German chocolate cake, Key lime pie)
Otto's (since 1937; homemade hot dogs, bratwurst, 50 kinds of sausage: chicken, pork, full deli; literally grilled on sidewalk barbecue)3
Poonah's Pit (Texas bbq: ribs, brisket, pulled pork, Texas plate, lamb, smoked salmon)3
Biscuit State? (North Carolina: biscuits with huckleberry jam, sausage gravy, stewed apples, egg on top of gravy, Reggie--fried chicken and bacon, grits

Bonneville
Cascade Locks Museum

Eugene
U of Oregon Museum of Art
Air and Space Museum
Doris Ranch (hazelnut farm)
National Historic Museum
Willamette Science and Tech Center
Kennedy School (now a moviehouse and B&B)
Burnside Bridge
P. Classical Chinese Garden
Lower Macleay Park
Forest Park (heavily forested)
Ira Keller Fountain (huge)

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Edgefield
The Black Rabbit (food)

Salem
State Fair (Aug)
AC Gilbert Discovery Village and Toy Hall of Fame (erector set inventor)
Gilbert House
Child’s Museum

Tillamook- ? (Pig/ Motorcycle race?)

Takilama
Out ‘n’ About Treehouse Restaurant

Florence
Sea Lion Caves
Fly Fishing Museum
Proxy Falls
Ft Dalles Museum
Lava River Cave (lava formations, South Ice Cave, Newberry Crater)

Pendleton
Underground tours (1870s Chinese city)

Mount Adams Wilderness

Siuslaw National Forest

Columbia River Gorge

Dunes National Recreation Area

Smith Rock State Park (formations)

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Camp 18 (lumberjack meal, atmosphere)

Bandon Beach

Oregon State Park system- yurts (futon, central heat, electricity, bunk beds, wooden floors)

Caves National Monument

Baker City
National Historic Trail Interp Ctr

Newport
Oregon Coast Aquarium; Haystack Rock at Cannon Bch (tidepools);

Cascades
Three Sisters Wilderness Area (Camp Lake)

Lincoln City
Devils Lake, D River (shortest river in the world- 120 +/- feet)

Bend
Lava Cast Forest (tree molds)
Paulina Park (drive to obsidian flow)
Newberry Caldera
Tumalo Feed Co

McMinneville
Evergreen Aviation Museum (Spruce Goose)

Multnoma Falls (Columbia River Gorge--6 waterfalls)

Corvalis
Kinetic Sculpture Races (on wheels, July)
da Vinci Festival

Sherwood
Robin Hood Festival (July)

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Christmas Valley Sand Dunes
World Kite Mus and Hall of Fame
Lewis and Clark Interpretative Center
Willie Keil’s Museum
Haystack Rock (tidepools)
Enchanted Forest
John Day Fossil Beds
end of the Trail Monument
Astoria Column
Stonehenge Memorial
Maryhill Museum
Ft Vancouver
Big Lava Bed
McLoughlin House National Historic Site
Gov’t Mineral Springs
Lava Bridge
Ice Caves
John Jackson House
Burrows House Museum
Multnomah Falls (US 30; Eagle Creek Trail)

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