Hello again Saythree:
One thing to keep in mind when traveling to Seattle WA and OR, while the people are all ( for the most part ) really nice, there has been along history of general antagonism towand people flooding WA and OR buying up realestate when it was really cheap, making it next to impossibe for the little guy to buy his/her own piece of property and houses as well. I was in Seattle from 1989 to 1999 when someone decided to inform the whole of the USA that Seattle was the most livable city and applauding how inexpensive homes were, as indeed they were. BAM!!!!! Word spread like wildfire! We got the biggest flood since Noah only it was a flood of people many from NY but alot of Californians selling their homes and buying two, sometimes three homes as an investment. Suddenely prices went skyhigh. The folks in OR had the same problems years before. In Seattle, it wasn't uncommon to read in the news and hear on TV news about people from CA getting their tires slashed....all because they had Calif plates on their car or plates from NY Texas. The uproar has settled down...been really quite in the Pacific Northwest these days, as far as I know.
No, your not likely to get your tires slashed. Most of that has died out. The point is that when you visit up that way to go out of your way to be friendly, ask permission. I 've been in and out of WA and OR since and I know there is still an under current of hard feelings. But I have never had any problems. I lived in Californai before I moved to Seattle in 1989, but I got my license plates changed real fast!
You must visit Coos Bay. There are some great sand dunns up that way. Bandon is a nice vacation spot. Memory is not serving me too well right now but I that there is a National Landmark in Bandon regarding a building that was built by Lewis and Clark. Check it out.
Regards
Robert Roy
