The Portland Winter Lights is each February. This year they have split it into a couple of weekends (and still made it spread throughout the city) for COVID means. I don’t mind it – sometimes is a little much to drive like 20 miles and find out that they were having technical difficulties, but that…

A new year, a new January. To start our year, we took a trip to Cape Disappointment and visited the two lighthouses that are close to each other (right on the WA side near Astoria). It normally costs to visit them however on January 1st they let people visit for free. Gas has been going…

My parents came up to visit as we came closer to Christmas day. Keeping busy is a good thing to do when you have so many people inside. We made plans and went to Lightopia (on the west side) which is a drive-through (free) Christmas light display. We also went to Salem and saw the…