North Oregon Coast (Not Another Travel Guide)

by Bob Campbell

Overview

Drown a few brain cells as you slog along with us for another extended family vacation to wondrous places and exotic sights galore (not to be confused with moldy gangrenous lesions due to rain rot).

Over 120 stunning (as in, some will leave you senseless and wondering, "Why?") images, predominantly from the family "Unvember" (anything-but-November) Thanksgiving On The Coast with In-Laws and Outlaws Family Vacation. Pictures covering the range from the Wings and Waves Water Park at the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum in McMinnville, Oregon to Albany in the dark of the morning; spend a blustery day in Newport along the Bayfront and try to visit the closed Hatfield Marine Science Center; see quiet beaches shrouded in sheets of howling and spitting wind; torrential downpours to Lincoln City and a surprise visitor upon the beach; a walk along the Historic River Front below our room-with-a-real-view in Astoria; even our famous penchant for restrooms and construction zones! It's all here in amazing, eye-popping colorfully gray-tonal glory under increasing clouds and rain as the sun disappears after our first day.

Useful as a three to four day planner along the Oregon Coast for those without access to any real travel guides... or a natural masochistic tendency desiring discomfort; or those locked in a cubicle, deep in the bowels of corporate, steal-your-creative-soul fiefdom, toiling away at mind-numbing reports after yet another death-by-PowerPoint meeting and wanting to pretend they get to take a vacation or see a world beyond the endless sea of those five-foot high fabric covered walls; or even people that took just such a vacation at the same time we did during the wettest spring on record up here in the Pacific Northwest and had the intelligence to keep their expensive camera gear and phones out of the miserable weather - yet want pictures from -a- vacation (any vacation), to show others. This, my friend (at least you truly are my friend if you plunk down your hard earned handful of change to get a copy of my book), is what you're looking for to solve your problems.
Like all the Not Another Travel Guide collections, you'll feast your eyes upon some of the best, heart-stopping photography around (if you're locked in a shoe box, without even little air-holes cut into the top). So what the heck are you waiting for? Click on the version of book you figure will give you the most joy... because, honestly, you can trust me as your friend: you deserve a little joy. Well, that and a restroom break. I'll wait here in the car, out of the rain, with the heat set to high.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940154151785
Publisher:	Bob Campbell
Publication date:	05/01/2017
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	10 MB

About the Author

The short of it: over-educated, unemployed, and annoying with a camera. Quite possibly a dangerous combination. The long of it: I've been snapping pictures for over a quarter-of-a-century on equipment ranging from a Pentax k1000 to Canon SX700hs - but nothing fancier. In fact, after they retired my Kodachrome 64 film, I hung up the 'real cameras' and settled for "digital pocket snappers." It seems ninety percent of the challenge to taking pictures is to remember your camera (would seem obvious, wouldn't it? But look around at the folks with large, fancy cameras - no wonder they claim the phone-based lens will be the death of real photography). So I do my part and pack it almost everywhere. I was a latecomer to photography, though, so I had time to grow up in many different parts of the country with my formative stage in the South, but junior high and onward in the Pacific Northwest. The last set of initials after my name tacked on by the Washington State University College of Veterinary Medicine - making the 'highest degree attained' line of the survey read Doctor of Veterinary Medicine. I still live in the state of Washington with my lovely wife of over two decades who continues to be an invaluable accomplice. For any hazard I manage to avoid, our son does his best to ensure we'll see an early grave. Having spent a little time teaching, I've grown to miss a captive audience to inflict my photography upon, so thank you Smashwords for providing me a forum for dispersing my imagery pain to be loosed upon the world.