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The best place to stay at Cannon Beach, Oregon, in my opinion, is the Hallmark Inn. In 2008, my family stayed there because my in-laws had been there years before, and they could bring their [...]

Traveling through one corner of Oregon’s wine country taught me a lot about sustainable wine production. Here’s a quick guide to the green certifications for wines: King Estate organic wines [...]

Oregon’s Willamette Valley is legendary for its fabulous Pinot Noir wines, and a great many of them happen to sustainably grown and produced. My husband, Ken, and I decided we really needed to [...]

I’ve been reminiscing about my camping days as a kid. A list of my family vacations reads like a guidebook to the U.S. National Park system: Acadia, Yellowstone, Cape Hatteras, Mesa Verde, the [...]