The Oregon coast and inland - Corvallis is special to me

Beautiful Lincoln City, Oregon, with the sound of the Pacific crashing outside our motel room!  We traveled to Corvallis, OR today and took a whole lot of photographs (those were for both you and me, Mom).  Then, we headed through Philomoth, OR and on to the Oregon beaches.

Corvallis, OR, the home of Oregon State University, was where we spent last night.  I was exhausted because of all the smoke in the air and the asthma it triggered.  Our trip from Weed, CA was fraught with thicker and thicker smoke from at least 6 wildfires to the north and east of us.  I-5 was never threatened, but the burning of those poor forests made the air quality very bad.  I wore a filtration mask and we ran the AC on recirculate and that helped.

We stayed at a nice motel in Corvallis, OR - the University Inn - and both of us zonked out after the grueling drive.  When we woke up, there was a little smoke in the air, but not any where near as much as we saw on the trip up. So, this morning, Mom, we drove around Corvallis and I took some photographs.  I have nailed down the place where Grandma and Grandpa lived, either 11th and Jefferson,

 which looks like this now.  Across the street to the right is a large parking lot next to a tall dormitory building.

Or, it looks like this, the very large parking lot next to the tall dorm which is where 10th St would have been.  I remember that the University had built a tall dorm across the street from their house the last time we visited before they moved, when the U bought them out.

The campus is still really beautiful, retaining a large number of the gorgeous old buildings that were there when I was young.

They even have a few conifers whose branches go all the way to the ground for children (or students) to hide in and pretend.

This green house on, 12th Street, looks familiar somehow.

Are these houses you remember, Mom?

After the trip down memory lane, we drove to the beach and found this:

Depoe Bay, Oregon

Our motel in Lincoln City on the right, Beachfront Manor Inn - Lincoln City.

Steve is a water guy.  The beach suits him.  Too bad it's so darn cold.

Tomorrow, Seaside, Cannon Beach, Astoria and probably back down to Portland for a couple days of AirBnb before Sept. 1 in Tacoma.