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Drive #28: The Valsetz Route – I-5 to the Oregon Coast

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Drive #28: The Valsetz Route – I-5 to the Oregon Coast Date Driven: 2/15/15 Length: 77 miles. 41 miles of dirt. My Drive Time: 4 hours, including lunch stop. Start: Talbot Road exit, I-5, N44º 45.479′ W123º 02.962′ End: End of Highway 229 at Highway 101, N44º 54.117′ W124º 00.428′ GPS Track: GPX or KMZ […]

2015 Oregon Road Trip: The Video

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If you want to give up 15 minutes of your life, you can watch the video of our 2015 Oregon Road Trip. Video is new to me. Shooting, composing, storytelling, B-rolls, editing… I’m a total noob, and it shows! So my apologies for the bad edits, screw-ups, missed shots and everything else. Hopefully the content […]

Another Oregon Road Trip in the Books

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We’re back from another 9-day road trip up to Oregon. Usually we go for Thanksgiving or Christmas, but this time we went in mid-February. Who knew we’d have the warmest and driest weather of any visit for many years? It was a good trip, and good to get together with family again. One of the […]

Drive #27: Mauna Kea

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Date Driven: 4/23/09 Length: 8.4 miles (one way) My Drive Time: 20 minutes Start: Mauna Kea Visitors Center, N19º 45.558′ W155º 27.384′ End: N19º 49.330′ W155º 28.050′ GPS Track: GPX or KMZ format. (right click -> Save As) Source(s): This drive and the general area are described in Hawaii The Big Island Revealed, The Ultimate […]