I’ve been in Oregon for 25 days now, and I just wanted to share my first impressions of the place…
These first few pictures were taken on the last day of our cross-country drive:
![2014-03-17 14.42.10](http://unruhe29.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/2014-03-17-14-42-10.jpg?w=640)
![First glimpses of the Columbia River](http://unruhe29.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/2014-03-17-14-50-57.jpg?w=640)
![What keeps the onions from flying out when they hit a bump? Sorry, had to include this one...](http://unruhe29.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/2014-03-17-14-58-00.jpg?w=640)
![More of the Columbia River](http://unruhe29.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/2014-03-17-17-32-40.jpg?w=640)
![It's getting dark...OMG, are we there yet???](http://unruhe29.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/2014-03-17-18-54-25.jpg?w=640)
Obviously, we made it here eventually. Here’s my first glimpse when I woke up the next morning:
![A little gray, sure, but hey, it's the ocean...outside my bedroom window!](http://unruhe29.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/2014-03-18-07-35-50.jpg?w=640)
I’ve heard it said that if you don’t like the weather here, wait 5 minutes. It was my first full day in Oregon, so I had to make an appearance at the beach. This is Netarts, about a mile south of the house. This part of the beach is called Happy Camp. Seriously.
![You can see two of the Three Arch Rocks down in Oceanside, a mile or so north of the house.](http://unruhe29.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/2014-03-18-12-57-29.jpg?w=640)
![Fall Creek, Netarts Bay and the Pacific Ocean all sort of come together here.](http://unruhe29.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/2014-03-18-13-02-15.jpg?w=640)
![Another view of Fall Creek](http://unruhe29.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/2014-03-18-13-02-18.jpg?w=640)
I’ll put the rest in a separate post, so that hopefully they won’t take too many hours to load up!
To be continued…
Keep rolling with pics…..I love the one with onions too!