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Tahkenitch Creek hike
Hiking Tahkenitch Creek to the Beach — And Catching Its Beauty From Above
There’s something special about the Tahkenitch Creek Trail on the central Oregon coast. It’s one of those hikes that doesn’t try to impress you with a single dramatic moment — instead, it slowly reveals layer after layer of the Oregon Dunes’ personality. Forest, dunes, wet...

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First Hands‑Free Drive in My 2026 Subaru Touring XT
After six months of waiting for Subaru to finish the hands‑free driving software for my 2026 Touring XT, I finally got the dealer update installed—and today I took it for its first real test on Oregon’s I‑5.
It was worth every bit of the wait.
The system handled lane‑keeping with smooth precision, and the active lane‑changing felt confident and natural. Watching the car re...

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Heceta Head to Hobbit Beach: A Perfect Oregon Day
Yesterday we took our friends from Illinois out to the Oregon Coast for a hike from Heceta Head Lighthouse down to Hobbit Beach. They used to live in Oregon years ago and miss it a lot, so this trip was their chance to reconnect with the forests, cliffs, and ocean they don’t get back home. I reminded them — jokingly — that Illinois mostly offers cornfields, so they’d better soak...

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Back to Yaquina Head: Where Basalt Meets the Endless Ocean
A Few Hours at Yaquina Head — A Return to One of Oregon’s Most Dramatic Coastlines
I first visited Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area in Newport about a year ago. Even with only a short stop, the place stayed with me — the sharp volcanic cliffs, the offshore rocks crowded with seabirds, the deep roar of the Pacific, and that feeling of standing at t...

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One Fish, Many Dishes
One Fish, Many Dishes: My Wild Alaska Coho Salmon Odyssey
I recently walked into Costco for “just a few things” and walked out with a whole fillet of Wild Alaska Coho Salmon the size of a small surfboard. Naturally, the only reasonable thing to do was smoke it on the Big Green Egg. Because if you own a BGE and don’t ...

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