My family and I moved to the Oregon Coast in the spring of 1989. I was 12 years old, but I knew it was going to be home for me for the rest of my life.
It might not be the biggest state in the Country (it IS the ninth largest) or the most populated (27th on that list), but it does hold an outsized place in the country’s consciousness.
For my generation, it is the old computer game, The Oregon Trail. More recently, Portlandia cracked the zeitgeist.
I meet people from all over the country and world who come to Oregon for a dream vacation, and for a lot of them, it is their first time in our state.
They usually can’t get over the natural beauty of the place, the clean air, and the generally good mood everybody is in. Even if it is just tourists on vacation looking at things through rose-colored glasses, it makes you feel good about where you live.
People don’t go to Ohio or Delaware and say the same thing.
So here is hoping all of us look as good as Oregon does today on her 166th birthday!!
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