Speaker 1: Hello everybody, and welcome to an all new episode of
Speaker 1: Been There Deane That welcome to have been there, see that.
Speaker 2: Welcome to my podcast Kailin today.
Speaker 1: What do you want to talk about?
Speaker 2: Gosh, Dean, I got no clue, you know, I just.
Speaker 1: One of these days. I want you to come with it.
Speaker 2: Oh, I have ideas. No, no, no, I don't know where
Speaker 2: we're going, but I think we should talk about how
Speaker 2: we travel in just to carry on. We never check
Speaker 2: it back, so wherever we go we need to talk
Speaker 2: about our packing abilities.
Speaker 1: I was thinking, sorry to maybe divert here. I was thinking,
Speaker 1: since we since I just got back from a great
Speaker 1: trip to Oregon, we talk about an even better trip
Speaker 1: that we went on to Oregon, the first one, the
Speaker 1: only well, yeah, I guess that's right. We happened back,
Speaker 1: but yes, the first one.
Speaker 2: Actually, I love that you do. That was such a
Speaker 2: great trip.
Speaker 1: What's a really good trip planned by me? It was
Speaker 1: planned by Kailin? Heck, yeah, where did I plan? I
Speaker 1: planned Sippy River, that's right, the Mississippi. I wanted to
Speaker 1: do a steam boat ride up the Mississippi, just like
Speaker 1: Mark Twain did. I even bought us little Mark Twain
Speaker 1: books to read while we were on it, and then
Speaker 1: COVID befell us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we actually went to we flew to Oregon, we
Speaker 2: flew to Portland, and this is when nobody really knew
Speaker 2: what was going on with COVID and the shutdowns, and
Speaker 2: I was getting crazy texts. People were like, you need
Speaker 2: to come home. The National Guard is going to be
Speaker 2: patrolling the streets, and do you remember that. Yeah, we
Speaker 2: landed in Portland and you were like, it's going to
Speaker 2: be fine, and it was like, I think we were
Speaker 2: there maybe four days before like the.
Speaker 1: Huge shut Yeah, yeah, yeah it was.
Speaker 2: But we're just like speculating. They're like, we don't really
Speaker 2: know what's going on.
Speaker 1: I don't remember the exact dates of when COVID really
Speaker 1: kind of ramped up, but I remember we were I think,
Speaker 1: and take this with a huge grain of salt, I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure we were in Oregon early March and then
Speaker 1: like mid March is when the lockdown.
Speaker 2: Started happening something like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, could be wrong on those dates, but I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure that's pretty accurate.
Speaker 2: It was just funny, like the text that I was getting,
Speaker 2: it's like my grandma knows so and so the National guards.
Speaker 2: I remember people were like, yeah, freaking out.
Speaker 1: Well, and I was only three months off of my
Speaker 1: hip surgery too, so I was quite hobbily.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but still such an incredible trip and we had
Speaker 2: a different experience just because of the shutdown. There weren't
Speaker 2: as many people out and about.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which was nice, I guess in that regard. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so what did we do. We flew into Portland, stayed
Speaker 1: one night in Portland, and it was kind of a
Speaker 1: ghost town, like we mentioned for the reasons earlier. The
Speaker 1: food I remember being good. I remember having like some
Speaker 1: good food truck, like Korean barbecue food or something like that.
Speaker 2: We brought Pappy with us. Stayed at the Kimpton, which
Speaker 2: is always a great dog friendly hotel because you don't
Speaker 2: have to pay an additional pet fee.
Speaker 1: Right, and there's a lot of other dogs for nice
Speaker 1: dogs to interact with. Alistairs not allowed at Kimpton.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, Patty was great for the Kimpton.
Speaker 1: He's just like whatever, don't even bother talking to me,
Speaker 1: and I won't talk to you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a prima donna.
Speaker 1: So the whole plan for this trip, I guess I'll
Speaker 1: let Kaitlyn describe it because she was one that planned
Speaker 1: it all those years ago, if you can remember.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so pre COVID Dean and I decided that. But
Speaker 2: I guess once a year or twice a year, I
Speaker 2: don't really know, we would plan trips for each other.
Speaker 2: So we wanted to do it internationally. Dean planned Guatemala.
Speaker 2: I planned Saint Lucia, and then after he broke his hip,
Speaker 2: we were like, let's still, you know, keep this up,
Speaker 2: but let's do it domestically because it's easier for you
Speaker 2: to travel. So Dean planned the Mississippi River kept it
Speaker 2: a secret for the longest time. We obviously never did
Speaker 2: it because we were supposed.
Speaker 1: To go in like April or May or something, and
Speaker 1: everything was booked. It was like the Queen's Victoria boat
Speaker 1: we were supposed to be on or something.
Speaker 2: Like that would have been fun.
Speaker 1: We could do now, We could do it now. I'm
Speaker 1: looking right at our Mark Tween books.
Speaker 2: Actually, yeah, oh, it's good to core actually yeah. And
Speaker 2: so I planned Oregon, and I don't really know what
Speaker 2: sparked this. I think I just saw a beautiful photo
Speaker 2: on the coast and my idea was to find to
Speaker 2: Portland and then just drive south into California and enjoy
Speaker 2: the coast, and it is one like California coast is beautiful, obviously,
Speaker 2: like so stunning, but the Oregon coast is so underrated. No,
Speaker 2: not enough people talk about it.
Speaker 1: What do you think about the Colorado Coast?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Do you like it? Have you been there yet?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 1: The Colorado Coast?
Speaker 2: It being so silly? We're landlocked us.
Speaker 1: Dang it. I thought I was gonna stump beyond it.
Speaker 2: I thought you were like talking about the edge of
Speaker 2: Colorado for a second. No, anyways, you didn't stump me.
Speaker 2: So that was my idea, and that's what we did,
Speaker 2: and it was such an incredible trip. The coast is
Speaker 2: just it's so gorgeous. There's these beautiful peaks jutting out
Speaker 2: of the ocean. Like every turn, every bend is just
Speaker 2: more gorgeous than the next. Something else that I loved
Speaker 2: because I grew up in Virginia, not a landlocked state,
Speaker 2: and you can't do this in Virginia. You can't drive
Speaker 2: on the beach, which I thought was the coolest thing ever. Yeah,
Speaker 2: So we had a jeep that we rented and could
Speaker 2: just drive along the beach.
Speaker 1: And Oregon for whatever reason, lets you drive on the beach,
Speaker 1: and I think that's pretty much statewide. I don't know
Speaker 1: if Washington does. I'm gonna for the sake of this story,
Speaker 1: I'm going to say that the don't. And that's what
Speaker 1: makes Orgon great. But also, like driving on the beach
Speaker 1: is cool because, like, especially living in California for so long,
Speaker 1: you never get to do it, and then you're on
Speaker 1: at the beach for two minutes and you're like, all right,
Speaker 1: that was cool. Now let's get back on the road, and.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it's fine experience. It is then even
Speaker 2: to just like if you have a Jeep or whatever
Speaker 2: vehicle and like put your trunk out and you're just like,
Speaker 2: they're on the ocean.
Speaker 1: That would be yeah, do that like back up to
Speaker 1: a bonfire. I don't know if you're allwed to have
Speaker 1: bonfires on the beaches.
Speaker 2: There, but it was cool, cool experience. And then the
Speaker 2: interesting thing to me with driving on the beach is
Speaker 2: like everyone's pretty aware of it because it could get
Speaker 2: dangerous pretty quickly. You've got kids running around, but everyone's
Speaker 2: like aware. You're aware obviously like not going to hit people.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I wonder how many accidents there are involving cars
Speaker 1: and pedestrians on the beach.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Also like not that it's you know, there are people
Speaker 1: go to the sand dunes all the time and drive
Speaker 1: out there and there's no like lines or anything like that.
Speaker 1: But people are just kind of stupid. And this includes
Speaker 1: myself too, Like I'm not just saying, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: including myself in this and it is just kind of
Speaker 1: it does seem like a kind of a good recipe
Speaker 1: for some disaster. Occasionally I wonder, I wonder what this
Speaker 1: statistics are on that.
Speaker 2: But back to Oregon, Yes, there are so many cool
Speaker 2: things to see and I would love to do it again,
Speaker 2: like do the same exact thing we did again. There's
Speaker 2: obviously other things to see, but there is a shipwreck
Speaker 2: that we went to see.
Speaker 1: Do you remember any of the names of the places
Speaker 1: that we went?
Speaker 2: No, So I just wanted to drive down the coast
Speaker 2: and then Dean found all of these cool places to
Speaker 2: go to, like the shipwreck. I think that was one
Speaker 2: of our first stops.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm, that's very right. Yep. Basically in the northwest
Speaker 1: corner of Oregon is I don't know, wreck of the
Speaker 1: Peter Ayrdale. Yeah, so you had it right on the
Speaker 1: tip of your tongue. I could see it. I could
Speaker 1: see you basically mouthing it.
Speaker 2: So check that out.
Speaker 1: I just needed a nudge.
Speaker 2: And then Dean also found and I wish we would
Speaker 2: have found this sooner. A plane someone like planted a plane.
Speaker 2: It looks like it was just crashed into the ground.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I let's see if I can find it.
Speaker 2: But a guy lives there.
Speaker 1: So this is kind of the thing with places like Oregon.
Speaker 1: Colorado kind of falls into the same umbrella. California, certain
Speaker 1: parts of Montana. You taught Idaho, I could go on
Speaker 1: when you travel to the places like that, and especially
Speaker 1: considering the amount of of following, I guess you could
Speaker 1: say that we have and a lot of my photographer
Speaker 1: friends deal with this all the time. Is there's a
Speaker 1: lot of gatekeeping when it comes to these places, Like
Speaker 1: you go to the most beautiful place in the world,
Speaker 1: you post a picture of it online, and then everyone
Speaker 1: asks about where it is and how to get there,
Speaker 1: and then there is like the moral dilemma of do
Speaker 1: I tell people how to get there? Do I tell
Speaker 1: people where it is? Because that's going to introduce more
Speaker 1: people to it, And a lot of the times people
Speaker 1: don't really respect the places that they go, and so
Speaker 1: there's like a real moral dilemma of like sharing the
Speaker 1: places that you went. I we're kind of getting on
Speaker 1: a tangent here. I personally like sharing the places that
Speaker 1: I go. I think the world is meant to be seen.
Speaker 2: We all live on the world, Like, why can't we
Speaker 2: just see it?
Speaker 1: Yes, I'm not a big fan of gatekeeping information like that.
Speaker 1: I understand why people do it. I personally don't like
Speaker 1: to do it because there are so many times where
Speaker 1: even like my people that I would consider my friends,
Speaker 1: post a picture or video place and I'm like, hey, man,
Speaker 1: where is this I'd really like to go. He's like, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, can essentially gate keeping it for me.
Speaker 2: Which there's one person in particular that I'm thinking of,
Speaker 2: in one place in particular that I'm thinking of, And
Speaker 2: it's so frustrat It's mostly the photography community, yeah, and
Speaker 2: it's like I get it, you got this cool shot
Speaker 2: and your shot went viral, but like, come on, just
Speaker 2: it's just frustrating that people don't share, right, But I
Speaker 2: get like maybe more so in the rock climbing community
Speaker 2: or like the naturalist community, where they want to protect yeah,
Speaker 2: that Land. Yeah, but this is just kind of like
Speaker 2: for selfish reasons, I feel right, don't take my likes
Speaker 2: away from me, Yeah, but I did.
Speaker 1: The reason I met brought that up is because I
Speaker 1: will be sharing some of the locations that I at
Speaker 1: least remember that we stopped by. If you just Google,
Speaker 1: all you have to do is google airplane home in
Speaker 1: Oregon and it'll bring it up. It's like maybe forty
Speaker 1: five minutes outside of Portland, and it was really cool.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of the times the guy lets
Speaker 1: you go inside of it, and I don't think we
Speaker 1: went inside of it.
Speaker 2: No, because you have to email him. I think twenty
Speaker 2: four to forty eight hours in advance. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: and we found it like twelve hours.
Speaker 1: But it was so cool, just like walk around and
Speaker 1: see it's basically like this ERJ one twenty five sitting
Speaker 1: in the middle of the forest.
Speaker 2: I didn't get out of the car because it says
Speaker 2: no trespassing. You just feel your drone.
Speaker 1: And we walked under the plane.
Speaker 2: I certainly didn't.
Speaker 1: I certainly have a video of us walking directly under
Speaker 1: the flight.
Speaker 2: How do I not remember that at all? I think,
Speaker 2: I force no why I swear I did not get
Speaker 2: out of that car.
Speaker 1: I guarantee you. I could spend some time to pull
Speaker 1: up the video right now, but I'm going to save
Speaker 1: the time and just you just have to take my
Speaker 1: word for it.
Speaker 2: I'll try.
Speaker 1: But yeah, Google Airplane Home on Google Maps will bring
Speaker 1: you right to it. It's definitely worth it. Like if
Speaker 1: you do fly into Organ and go to the coast,
Speaker 1: because you're gonna have I think it's like a two
Speaker 1: hour driver or something to get to the coast and
Speaker 1: you won't really drive by it, but it's kind of
Speaker 1: on your way and so you might as well stop
Speaker 1: by and check it out while you're there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, email Big Guy in advance though.
Speaker 1: And then we went to Astoria. Do you remember a Storia?
Speaker 2: Is that where we saw No.
Speaker 1: So, Astoria is where the Gooney's.
Speaker 2: House is, Oh right, yeah, which I didn't really need
Speaker 2: to see that.
Speaker 1: Which we don't really care. I mean I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't love the Goonies movie. It's not like I dislike it,
Speaker 1: but there is a big cult following for it.
Speaker 2: We went out of our way to see it and
Speaker 2: we were like cool, yeah, and turned around. That happens sometimes,
Speaker 2: So this is our trip.
Speaker 1: So and the reason I said is because I'm going
Speaker 1: to work us north to south. So we went to
Speaker 1: a story to see the Gooney's house. We went to
Speaker 1: the shipwreck of Peter Eyerdale, and then we continued down
Speaker 1: south from there. And some of these are just coordinate,
Speaker 1: so I'm not really going to be The shipwreck.
Speaker 2: Is cool because typically with shipwrecks, they're underwater and you
Speaker 2: have to dive or snorkel to see them. But this
Speaker 2: one's just like right on the water, right on the sand.
Speaker 1: And I really don't have many of the spots saved
Speaker 1: on my phone like I thought I did. I have
Speaker 1: like maybe eight, but I don't really remember many of
Speaker 1: these spots. So we went south and then we stopped
Speaker 1: at a place called Elk Flats Elk Flats Trail, which
Speaker 1: I don't even know if we did that or not.
Speaker 1: And again I was pretty hobbled. We'll get to it later.
Speaker 1: But I went on this like mini hike. Remember we
Speaker 1: went on a little bit here beach, Secret Beach.
Speaker 2: Is that what we're talking about.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I got poison ivy, Yeah, yeah, we'll get to
Speaker 1: that in a second. And then we carried down to
Speaker 1: Cape Mears Lake, which I don't really remember that.
Speaker 2: Much of that. I don't think we did any of these.
Speaker 2: We definitely didn't go to it Li.
Speaker 1: And then we went to Pacific City Beach, which I
Speaker 1: don't really remember. And then we went These are all
Speaker 1: just saved in my phone, and I figure we must
Speaker 1: have stopped and they're on the coast, and so we
Speaker 1: at least definitely stopped it.
Speaker 2: We did not go to a lake.
Speaker 1: Well it's it says lake, but it's still on the ocean.
Speaker 1: We went to Yaquina Head Lighthouse. Do you remember that?
Speaker 2: We skipped that.
Speaker 1: I remember We went to Thor's Well. Do you remember that?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Freezing, but really cool.
Speaker 1: Thor's Well was really cool. It's kind of like a
Speaker 1: kind of reminds me of like Hawaii when we were
Speaker 1: Remember when we in Maui and we sell like the blowholes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you got water all over you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well everyone gets water all over them when they.
Speaker 2: Well the blowhole blue like right as you were seeling
Speaker 2: right next to it.
Speaker 1: Yes, great experience. Great.
Speaker 2: Thor's Well was cool because we were there in March.
Speaker 2: It was just like a little bit of iffy weather.
Speaker 2: It was nice most of the time, but we made
Speaker 2: it to thors Well, I think right or right after sunset,
Speaker 2: and it was super chilly, and so I just stayed
Speaker 2: in the car with Pappy, like I saw it for
Speaker 2: a quick second and then went back in the car
Speaker 2: and you flew the drone. But still really cool. So
Speaker 2: I would love to go back with the warmer weather.
Speaker 1: And then we went to Cannon Beach.
Speaker 2: Remember Cannon Beach, Yes, Cannon Beach. I loved get which
Speaker 2: so beautiful.
Speaker 1: Which ironically enough, I don't have saved on my maps here,
Speaker 1: and that's where we stayed.
Speaker 2: We found like a little hotel, yeah, because I didn't.
Speaker 2: I only booked one hotel and I was like, we'll
Speaker 2: just figure it out as we go.
Speaker 1: Where'd you get that idea from you? It's genius traveling
Speaker 1: tech and I and.
Speaker 2: I love that, and I love when we do that
Speaker 2: because then we're not rush. It's like, oh, our hotel's
Speaker 2: two hours away, like we got to get there, so
Speaker 2: you can really be leisurely and like enjoy the places
Speaker 2: that you love. And I love staying at Cannon Beach.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Cannon Beach was beautiful. It would be nice to
Speaker 1: go back, like in this time of year June July, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and actually get to enjoy it because it was cold.
Speaker 1: I think the water was lower than it normally would be.
Speaker 1: Maybe not, I'm not really sure how that works.
Speaker 2: But Cannon too, you get those beautiful views of whatever
Speaker 2: those peaks are. I want to call them petones, but.
Speaker 1: I'm don't know if they're I think it's just a
Speaker 1: giant rock.
Speaker 2: These massive, massive rocks.
Speaker 1: Probably like I think it just one what I think
Speaker 1: it might be one?
Speaker 2: Or but like through the coast of Oregon, you have
Speaker 2: those peaks rocks.
Speaker 1: Oh like looking back from the water towards the land.
Speaker 2: No, just in the water y.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's just this one. I think. Here's a
Speaker 1: picture of it with the horse in front of it.
Speaker 1: But I guess there's a couple.
Speaker 2: Of there a bunch.
Speaker 1: Yeah's on the coast. There's a couple, but there is
Speaker 1: one main, big one.
Speaker 2: How do you get a horse on the beach? I
Speaker 2: would love to do that.
Speaker 1: If you can bring a car, you can sure certainly
Speaker 1: will bring a horse.
Speaker 2: Let's do that next time.
Speaker 1: I guess you can bring a car on a highway.
Speaker 1: Probably shouldn't bring a horse on a highway. So I
Speaker 1: just I just got myself there.
Speaker 2: Oh, I just love it so much. Like, I don't
Speaker 2: know if I could live there because.
Speaker 1: It seems a bit dreary.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I loved Oregon so so much, and I
Speaker 2: really think it's one of the most underrated states ever.
Speaker 1: Culturally speaking too, I feel like there's a lot of
Speaker 1: similarities between Oregon and Colorado.
Speaker 2: Yeah, lots of granola people people.
Speaker 1: Wise, Yeah, a lot of the granolas.
Speaker 2: And I'm becoming more granola. I'm an organic gal. Now.
Speaker 1: We're working on it. You've only been in Colorado four
Speaker 1: months now, five months now, and yeah, it's a slow burn,
Speaker 1: but it's getting there. I just can't wait to see
Speaker 1: how granola you get in five years.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm still going to be myself, but organic, free range, yeah,
Speaker 2: free range. Yeah, I'm learning a lot. I'm learning a
Speaker 2: lot from a new Colorado friends.
Speaker 1: Heck, yeah, that's great. And yeah. So then we just
Speaker 1: carried on down south. From there, we went to, as
Speaker 1: Kaylin alluded to earlier, a place called Secret Beach, which
Speaker 1: is one of the coolest It's not a secret, well
Speaker 1: not anymore.
Speaker 2: Everyone knows about it.
Speaker 1: After dozens of listeners listened to this it it really
Speaker 1: is one of the most beautiful, like coastal areas I've
Speaker 1: ever been to.
Speaker 2: I would think, I don't think it's necessarily a secret,
Speaker 2: but it's kind of like a secret in the sense
Speaker 2: of it just looks like a forest and then you
Speaker 2: walk through this forest maybe thirty feet fifty feet, and I.
Speaker 1: Remember being I remember being like half a mile or
Speaker 1: a mile.
Speaker 2: Let's say it's half a mile max. It was pretty quick,
Speaker 2: and then you just walk out to the most gorgeous,
Speaker 2: gorgeous beach.
Speaker 1: Yeah. You can also look up Samuel H. Boardman State
Speaker 1: Scenic Corridor, which is just it's basically the same thing,
Speaker 1: just for their.
Speaker 2: South so beautiful. I could have spent all day there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that place was really nice. I will give a
Speaker 1: bit of a fore warning if you go down there.
Speaker 1: Don't get off trail like I did.
Speaker 2: It's like, ooh, path, like, let me go. Yes.
Speaker 1: I don't know what I was thinking. I like, I
Speaker 1: think I was kind of excited because I could sort
Speaker 1: of walk for the first time in three months, and
Speaker 1: I was like, watch me walk this crazy path. And
Speaker 1: sure enough I was like on my hands and knees
Speaker 1: crawling through certain you know, densely forested, wooded areas.
Speaker 2: It's making it sound like it's as crazy like this
Speaker 2: is like max half a mile straight walk for me.
Speaker 2: For you know, as you were on your.
Speaker 1: Hands and knee, I'm obviously only talking about my perspective
Speaker 1: because that's the only one I know. Hands and knees,
Speaker 1: blood everywhere, sweat everywhere, and I was brushing up against
Speaker 1: a bunch of like foliage, and some of that was
Speaker 1: poison ivy, which you know, I've run into that in
Speaker 1: California before. It didn't really we just don't have that
Speaker 1: in Colorado, and so I don't really think to register
Speaker 1: that as a possible threat for me myself.
Speaker 2: What sucks is later on we find out that he
Speaker 2: has poison oak. And then we find out that he
Speaker 2: has poison oak, and then we get home a few
Speaker 2: days later, he's working on his motorcycle spills gasoline.
Speaker 1: All over my gosh, I forgot all about that.
Speaker 2: So then it was like poison oak mixed with a
Speaker 2: gasoline burn. Oh, he was miserable.
Speaker 1: I felt so bad for I Like my gas tank
Speaker 1: had been sitting for like a year or two, and
Speaker 1: so I was like cleaning out the gas tank, emptied
Speaker 1: the gas until like clean it out whatever, poured it
Speaker 1: all over my arms and all over my legs, which
Speaker 1: I had to burn on the poison ivy burn, and
Speaker 1: so then it was just like insult to injury. And
Speaker 1: then like, man, you get the oil in your fingertips
Speaker 1: when you're scratching yourself, and then you scratch certain parts
Speaker 1: of your body that just like spreads the infect whatever
Speaker 1: it is to that part of your body too.
Speaker 2: It's funny because now my friends whenever their husband gets
Speaker 2: poisoned ivy or poison oak, I'm like the go to person.
Speaker 2: They're like, how did Dean do them with it?
Speaker 1: I just remember like sleeping on the couch occasionally because
Speaker 1: I couldn't bear to be in the bed and I
Speaker 1: would like stick to it.
Speaker 2: It almost felt like chicken pox level.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was bad. Don't recommend it one bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So follow the trail at Secret Beach. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: it's just we gotta go back.
Speaker 1: And then we went down into California because I think
Speaker 1: we wanted to see some red woods, but we did.
Speaker 1: We did see a couple.
Speaker 2: I was just actually talking to a friend about this trip.
Speaker 2: Where did we fly out of because we ended in Redwoods.
Speaker 1: We flew to Portland.
Speaker 2: We drove all the way back up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't remember. So we went to Crescent City,
Speaker 1: stayed at like a holiday in there or like a
Speaker 1: you know, some sort of motel, and then we drove
Speaker 1: up and went Instead of driving up the coast, we
Speaker 1: went we went like three hours inland kind of like
Speaker 1: central Oregon, and drove north in that through that town.
Speaker 1: So we went through like Eugene, which is where University
Speaker 1: of Oregon is, like a Nike factory. Yeah, we saw
Speaker 1: we saw a person standing in the road waving at us,
Speaker 1: and we weren't sure what to do, so we just
Speaker 1: kind of passed them, and as we passed them, they
Speaker 1: just turned around slowly and kept waving at us. Eye contacted.
Speaker 2: Okay, I need to say something because we have told
Speaker 2: the Saint Lucia story of us almost dying in Saint Lucia.
Speaker 1: That was just that wasn't death, There wasn't a consequence
Speaker 1: of death. It was just eerie.
Speaker 2: And then this, we've told this story too, and people
Speaker 2: maybe we're not telling it properly. But two of the
Speaker 2: scariest instances in my life. This one, like I never
Speaker 2: felt like I was in danger, but I felt like
Speaker 2: I was in a horror movie because it was like
Speaker 2: the way this person was acting, the way that they
Speaker 2: slowly turned with this smile on their face and like
Speaker 2: slowly waving, and we could see him in the rear
Speaker 2: view mirror. It was just like creepy. And then we
Speaker 2: started hearing gunshots and like there's hunting out there. Whatever.
Speaker 2: But I was like, we got to get out of
Speaker 2: this place. Like I just felt.
Speaker 1: Weird, right. So the reason we were going that direction
Speaker 1: was because I wanted to go do this waterfall hike.
Speaker 1: And then we get to the trailhead and at the
Speaker 1: trailhead we see we hear a bunch of people just
Speaker 1: like firing guns in the wilderness, which is like pretty common.
Speaker 2: But after that, I don't know.
Speaker 1: We were on a high alert because of that.
Speaker 2: It really freaked us.
Speaker 1: And on the way there that remember the guy on
Speaker 1: the highway, he was like he was going like one
Speaker 1: hundred and ten miles an hour and I was going
Speaker 1: the speed limit, and he like cut in front of
Speaker 1: me and then or no, he was like stuck behind
Speaker 1: me and then cut in front of me and slammed
Speaker 1: on the brakes and then flipped me off and hunked
Speaker 1: his horn and sped off again.
Speaker 2: Oh, I totally. That's why we were like on edge
Speaker 2: about a bunch of things. And every instance of that
Speaker 2: like hour, just reminded me of Chainsaw Massacre, like the
Speaker 2: beginning of Chainsaw Massacre, and I just had this probably
Speaker 2: nothing would have happened, but I've just had this really
Speaker 2: weird and creepy feeling. I was like, we just need
Speaker 2: to get out of this town.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think we went. We tried to go to
Speaker 1: Oopqua Hot Springs or Too Kat Falls, one of those
Speaker 1: two places.
Speaker 2: But okay, back to this person just real quick, because
Speaker 2: I don't think we're doing a proper job again explaining it.
Speaker 2: This person is standing in the middle of the road
Speaker 2: just waving and smiling. There's no cars around. And then
Speaker 2: we slowed down and we're like, is this person okay?
Speaker 2: And then we slowly go past them, and then that's
Speaker 2: when they slowly turn around, still with a smile on
Speaker 2: their face in the middle of the road. Very creepy,
Speaker 2: it was. It was just odd. I don't know if
Speaker 2: I'm doing a good enough job, But I mean, you.
Speaker 1: Explained it perfectly. It's kind of maybe one of those
Speaker 1: like you had to be there moments.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think I just freaked myself out.
Speaker 1: You did, and you do that occasionally, Yeah, yep. And
Speaker 1: then we went up to Portland and left. It was
Speaker 1: a good trip. I I mean, yeah, like I said,
Speaker 1: it was one of my favorite trips I've been on.
Speaker 1: I like you I like driving, and I liked scenic
Speaker 1: natural beauty, and that was filled with both of those things.
Speaker 1: I like. You know, like when you travel internationally, I
Speaker 1: think it's you kind of lean towards the idea of
Speaker 1: you have to spend some time in cities and do
Speaker 1: all the like the city stuff. But like that's kind
Speaker 1: it's not really my jam.
Speaker 2: So this, yeah, it's very us because they're and granted,
Speaker 2: you know COVID times, but there weren't a ton of
Speaker 2: people around and it was just like and there's so
Speaker 2: much beach and just so much land and it's easy
Speaker 2: to stay away from people if you want.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which I like, which I want?
Speaker 2: We The one crowded place we went to is that bridge.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Moltnoma I think, or waterfall, not bridge. Well,
Speaker 1: there's a bridge over waterfall. Yeah, let me figure out
Speaker 1: the name of that, I think. Yeah, yeah, we shure
Speaker 1: it hanging in our in our office here Columbia River Gorge,
Speaker 1: that's what it is. Moult, Normana, I think is in Washington.
Speaker 2: State, and that was pretty. It was rainy, gloomy, and
Speaker 2: there were so many people there. Yeah, because it's you know,
Speaker 2: it's easy access. So whenever you have somewhere with easy access,
Speaker 2: there's going to be a lot of people.
Speaker 1: I was right. Moltnomah Falls is on the way to
Speaker 1: Columbia River Gorge. Nice, So I was right, but I
Speaker 1: didn't believe in myself, so I waivered on that.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think there are, like Inland More, a ton
Speaker 2: of waterfalls and hikes and lots to do.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So if you go east from Portland and you
Speaker 1: could just kind of go up the what is that river?
Speaker 1: Do you know the name of that river, the Columbia River.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I had to look it up. But yeah,
Speaker 1: if you go up that river, it's cool. A lot
Speaker 1: of a lot of waterfalls, a lot of gorg like.
Speaker 1: That's in my opinion, a day trip from Oregon. Just
Speaker 1: fly in, maybe sleep the first night, and then drive
Speaker 1: up up the river east from there and just get
Speaker 1: as stuff at the waterfalls, do some hikes. We did
Speaker 1: a couple of hikes up there two small ones, but
Speaker 1: the waterfall or the Columbia River Gorge was busy and
Speaker 1: there's like some construction going on, I remember, but we
Speaker 1: still got a great shot of you sitting solo up
Speaker 1: on the bridge.
Speaker 2: That's my thing, too, is whenever we go on it
Speaker 2: like trips from years ago. We're both so much better
Speaker 2: with our cameras and have better cameras, So I just
Speaker 2: want to go back in.
Speaker 1: I don't think I could get a better shot than
Speaker 1: that shot right there, though, What would you do differently
Speaker 1: about that one? That's perfect?
Speaker 2: I think I would just want it to be a
Speaker 2: little bit sunnier.
Speaker 1: It was just like I like the moodiness of it, Okay,
Speaker 1: And also the conditions is unpredictable. You could have the
Speaker 1: best camera in the world with bad conditions totally.
Speaker 2: I just think with our new cameras it could be
Speaker 2: even better.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty happy with that. I don't think I could
Speaker 1: make it any significantly better, Okay, but I'd like to
Speaker 1: see you go back and try. No, no, okay, that's
Speaker 1: a crazy idea. You're right, but I.
Speaker 2: Do want to get better photos of the coast.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, we'll go back, I guess, well, and it's
Speaker 1: funny too, because in Bandon, I was looking at the
Speaker 1: map and I was like, oh, we must have driven
Speaker 1: right by this place because it's right there on the coast.
Speaker 1: Obviously it's coastal Oregon, and we drove the whole coast
Speaker 1: from north to south. So I was like, I just
Speaker 1: I can't really piece together when or like where it
Speaker 1: would have been when we were on our trip, but
Speaker 1: we did nice. Yeah, anything you want to add before
Speaker 1: say goodbye?
Speaker 2: I think we could do a separate episode about packing
Speaker 2: light because it's hard to get into like this was
Speaker 2: such a quick trip.
Speaker 1: Of course I'm going to pack light, yes, and also
Speaker 1: start for content, so anytime we can stretch a little
Speaker 1: bit of content out a little bit more, and that's
Speaker 1: always good, good thing for us to do. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: what's the smile for? I don't know why are you smiling? Now?
Speaker 1: You're giving me that weird, eerie feeling that it feel
Speaker 1: so familiar.
Speaker 2: I don't really have much else to say. If you're
Speaker 2: gonna do what we did, I would highly, highly recommend
Speaker 2: just booking one hotel in Portland and then just kind
Speaker 2: of flying by the seat of your pants and figuring
Speaker 2: it out as you go.
Speaker 1: There you go. Wise words from a wise woman, and
Speaker 1: quite beautiful. Must I add thank you, You're welcome. That's
Speaker 1: gonna do it for this week's episode of Been There,
Speaker 1: See That. Please be sure to tune in next week.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for coming to organ with us
Speaker 1: where maybe we suck just a little bit less. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I jumbled the sentences a little bit. I forgot to
Speaker 1: say thanks for coming with us to Oregon halfway through
Speaker 1: the outro, so I just kind of rolled with it.
Speaker 2: Thanks for coming with us to Oregon where maybe we
Speaker 2: sucked just a little bit less. It doesn't really make sense,
Speaker 2: but that's okay.
Speaker 1: I was rolling with it. Was an ideal. I don't
Speaker 1: think anyone's gonna notice until you hear this little last
Speaker 1: thirty seconds of us explaining what I was saying. So congratulations,
Speaker 1: you played yourself. That's me talking to me. We'll see
Speaker 1: you later.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.