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God’s Thumb: A Coastal Dream Finally Hiked
For years, God’s Thumb had been sitting quietly on my Oregon bucket list — a dramatic basalt formation rising above the Pacific, one of the most iconic viewpoints on the entire coast. Every time I saw photos of that sharp green ridge and the ocean stretching endlessly behind it, I felt the same pull:...

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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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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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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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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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