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City 'Scapes

10-18-19 Portland Downtown--Pioneer Square, Arts venues, etc

10-27-19 Portland's Chinatown & Lan Su Chinese Garden

11-2-19  Aviation & Space Museum, Air Show, Water Park  9-21-19

12-30-19 Traveling Light--Diwali, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Christmas

2-29-20 Fort Vancouver National Historic Site

3-22-20  Saturday in the Park--explore nearby parks

5-17-20 May Days--Public Gardens to Delight

8-19-20 Esther Short Park and Vancouver WA

the Gorgeous Gorge,      River Runs, and Water Fun

10-28-19 post:  Maryhill Museum of Art & the Carshow 10-5-19

R E C O M M E N D A T I O N S

More Destinations, near & not very far

the Coast

10-30-19 Whale Watching, Depoe Bay (3-19)

10-31-19     Astoria, Ft. Stevens, Ft. Clatsop

1-25-20:  Coffenbury Lake & Astoria 2, and the Forts

7-3-20 Florence to Port Orford, Dune Buggies and Bandon

8-12-2020 Seaside, OR

 the Mountains & Hills

11-7-19 post:  Mt. St. Helens

8-6-20 Crater Lake, fish the rogue,  wildlife safari, roseburg

9-18-2020 Mt Hood & Hwy 26
​(9-2-20)

9-22-2020 (actually Aug 25-26)
Mt Rainier & Hwy 12

the Forests

10-30-19  RV/camp/picnic at Iron Creek, WA

12-2-19 Millersylvania state park, wa

1-2-20 Battle Ground Lake State Park, WA

4-11-20 Trees to See in the Pacific Northwest: Arboretums

5-29-20 Oxbow Regional Park, OR

9-16-20 (actually August) Milo McIver State Park, North Fork Reservoir, Estacada