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A Quick Guide to Silver Falls

Here are nine pictures that might inspire you to grab a rain jacket, a bottle of water, and some snacks, and hit the road to Silver Falls State Park.

If you have never been there, please please, you must go. It’s spectaularly gorgeous this time of year.

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A Sunday Drive Around the ‘Hood

The plan? Hop in the car and go for a long Sunday drive around Mt Hood, dinner at our favorite restaurant in Hood River, and a drive home on the scenic Washington side of The Gorge.

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Meet Pam & Dave

We’re two friends from high school who parted ways the day we graduated. Thirty years later, we reconnected and fell in love. This website is a chronicle of our adventures through the Pacific Northwest and around the world.

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This Barred Owl is hunting squirrels outside one of our bedroom windows today. He's perched on a branch only 6 feet from our building.
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