View from the Samuel H. Boardman State Scenic Corridor outside Brookings, Ore.(Photo courtesy of the author)

Why did no one ever tell me about Oregon?!

Well, I suppose they did. "Oregon is beautiful," I have heard here and there. But it was whispers compared to all the gushing I heard about California, Alaska, Utah, Colorado. Somehow, the Beaver State snuck through the cracks. What a travesty.

We began early on the edge of Northern California on Highway 101, winding through a cloud. Nature's god must have known the show we were in for and thought to set the stage with a front curtain.

[caption id="attachment_1981209" align="aligncenter" width="2057"] The road through Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park[/caption]

Somehow, Paul Bunyan had ...

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