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…

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. We took a trip to the Portland International Raceway and attended the light show as someone in our neighborhood couldn’t go and gave us their tickets. We went to an event in downtown Gresham as well where they had a car show of sorts decorated with Christmas…