LIVING

It was hard for us to leave Ashland, Oregon as we felt that we could stay there for weeks. We might have stayed, but we had an appointment to meet friends in Crescent City, California. Mary and Tommy are fellow full-time travelers and Marisa went to High School with them. They knew the Crescent City area really well and they took us to Stout Grove in Jedediah Smith State Smith State Park. Jedediah Smith should not be confused with Jebediah Springfield. The hike is only half a

While we were in Ashland, I read about a nearby attraction called the Oregon Vortex. I recalled that Mulder spoke of this mysterious anomaly on one of the episodes of X-Files and since “I want to believe,” I looked into it a little more. Here is what it says on the Oregon Vortex website. “The Oregon Vortex is a glimpse of a strange world where the improbable is the commonplace and everyday physical facts are reversed. It is an area of naturally occurring visual and perceptual

While we were staying in Fortuna, California we heard rumors of a mystical beach that was made entirely of tumbled sea glass in Fort Bragg. Unicorns frolic in the surf and mermaids sing their siren call to sailors that pass by. Dolphins wear sombreros and strum huge guitars while jelly beans rain from the sky. These rumors caught our attention and bore further investigation. Before you get your hopes up, I should tell you that most of the above rumors aren’t true. There is ho