Our family just returned from a great trip to the Oregon Coast, where I managed to get in touch with my inner persnickety tourist and my inner envar'menist. It's laudable what the state, and to a lesser extent the feds, have done to preserve and enhance public access to the wondrous Oregon Coast, and the adjacent trails and forests.

More here, and here. Hope you enjoy the pix, and find the travel tips useful.....sometime soon.