{"id":5963,"date":"2014-05-13T08:30:28","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T15:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=5963"},"modified":"2014-05-13T08:30:28","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T15:30:28","slug":"picspam-post-and-south-to-oregon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/13\/picspam-post-and-south-to-oregon\/","title":{"rendered":"picspam post: and south to oregon"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s another picspam post! Yay! As always, much larger versions are over on my Flickr feed<\/a> – the panoramas in particular are good to view larger.<\/p>\n

It’s been a couple of years since I had any dates in Oregon, so I jumped on the chance to play with Leannan Sidhe again. Shanti’s good about letting people play a couple of their songs, which means you can sell some CDs, and all around it tends to be fun. As it was!<\/p>\n

We met up at King Street Station and took the train south. This is the first time I’ve been in the new higher-capacity Cascadia Rail cars. They’re nice enough – the chairs are a new thinner type, which lets them add a new row without sacrificing person space – but they’re now a 50\/50 orientation split, and I don’t like that<\/em>.<\/p>\n


Too Much Backwards<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n

The new dining car style itself is fine, but the serving car has lost its booth, and I miss it. On the other hand, they have speed trackers in the cars, and the outlets are easier to reach, and there are other nice parts as well.<\/p>\n

Vancouver the South has a train station too! It’s smaller than Vancouver of the North’s, but tidy and attractive.<\/p>\n


And a bit hard to shoot, even in panorama<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n

Shanti’s mom picked us up there, to take us down to Newport. They’d been wanting to get together for Mother’s Day anyway, so that worked out well. I’m afraid I don’t have a good picture, which makes me feel bad. But here, welcome to rural Oregon:<\/p>\n


Really Quite Lovely<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n

We kept stopping to take countryside pictures, since the next show wasn’t until 12:30 the next day. I’d brought both my phone and my old Canon G9; it’s kind of telling how far digital technology has progressed that most of these are from the phone. Still, there’s some thing the phone can’t do that the G9 can.<\/p>\n

Once we reached 101, the Coast Highway, the cameras really<\/em> started coming out, in between cloudbursts, which we kept seeing. As it turned out, we were probably wise to get a hotel the first night – tho’ we could’ve camped the second, as the weather turned fair.<\/p>\n


Hey, That Island Looks Like a Submarine!<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n


No, really, it really<\/b> looks like a submarine<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n


Oh Look, it’s Commander Crane<\/a><\/i><\/center><\/p>\n

The light was all over the place as the clouds whipped around – bright sun, dark clouds, changing at little or no notice. This makes for excellent<\/em> photography if you can keep your kit dry. This one really needs to be seen on Flickr tho’.<\/p>\n


The Sandy Beach<\/i>.<\/center><\/p>\n


Shanti’s not popping her hood up; she’s trying to keep it on her head. #windy<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n

We stopped at a couple of particularly rocky beach areas for sunset. All of these photos come from those stops. I have video of the waves in the bay, but I don’t really have a good place to put them. I really should make an account at the appropriate services, I suppose, but who has time?<\/p>\n


Big Beach Sky<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n


Big Beach Bay<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n


Sunset<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n


Heathcliff, Is That Your Hotel?<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n


Waterfall Into Ocean<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n


Sploosh<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n

Once the sun went down, we made pretty good time, snacked in the hotel room and headed pretty straight to unpacking and bed. But I took a picture to tweet successful arrival, so here that is:<\/p>\n


Who is the Comfiest of them All?<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n

Tomorrow, some pictures from the fair!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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