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Thursday, my mom said all the women in our family tend to be beach babies–we come alive near the water–and the men tend to be mountain men–they feel complete up in the beauty of high country.

It’s absolutely true for me.

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One of the things I miss the most about Portland is the proximity to the coast. It was easy to drop everything for a day trip to Cannon Beach. I did drop everything for ocean time, and pretty frequently too. The evidence is in the pictures saved from the four years in Orego...