How about Oregon...anybody like anything about that state?

[Tom Kitten]

well I happen to live here so that's a plus...

[SeattleGirl]

1. I love Oregon.

Grew up there; my family still lives there.

It's beautiful, just like Washington. The west side of the Cascade mountains is green and gorgeous. The eastside is more arid, but just as beautiful.

[Tom Kitten]

2. I like Washingon for the same reasons

except I don't have any family there but I do have friends there...

[Zomby Woof]

3. Powell's Books in Portland

Much of the coastline.

Oregon also produces the best pinot noir wines in the world.

[SeattleGirl]

7. I LOVE Powell's!

Used to hang out there quite a bit when I lived in Portland.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. My dear Tom Kitten!

I've been there, and there's a couple of places that I think are among the most beautiful on the planet:

Crater Lake, which is so beautiful there are hardly any words or pictures that do it justice.

Cannon Beach...My parents, my brother and I had our very first family vacation there, back in the 1950's, and we had a ball...

Having you live there is just the icing on the cake!

:hug:

[Tom Kitten]

16. visit Portland sometime!

I could take you on a tour!

[TieDyedDad]

5. Id like to go there

someday..

[Broken_Hero]

6. Oregon, my third home

I consider Oregon, Washington's twin brother....:D I have a lot of family in WA/Oregon....

Damn, as a matter of fact I was wearing my OSU shirt today, while sportin my ducks hat...I was a walking sports contradiction. :)

Its been a while since I've been there, last time I was there I was visiting an aunt, and carrying all my mothers crap, that she got from Klackamus(sp I know) mall.

[SeattleGirl]

8. Oregon and Washington are twins, aren't they?

Oh, and it's spelled Clackamas. :)

[Broken_Hero]

10. Ha, I can never remember how to spell

the name right...If I'm remembering right, they had an indoor ice skating rink as well...its been a while, probably 15 yrs or more since I've been there, usually going to Portland, Eugene, and The Dalles, sometimes Pendelton.

[SeattleGirl]

11. I've never been to the Clackamas Mall, but I used to go to

the shopping center near The Rose Garden, where they had an outdoor rink in the middle of it. Lived not too far from here.

[grasswire]

14. it's no longer Clackamas Town Center Mall...

...I learned yesterday. It's now called Happy Valley.

And it's nearly dead. The parent corporation is in bankruptcy.

[Broken_Hero]

15. Thanks for the update,

I didn't know that(obviously!)....

[SeattleGirl]

17. Happy Valley?

Sounds like a retirement home.

[quakerboy]

9. The marked lack of nasty wildlife

in the Willamette valley is a pretty serious plus.

The weather is generally pretty good, and with the exception of this year, generally lacks any serious snow. Another plus.

I met my wife here. My Canadian wife. Double plus.

[LeftyMom]

12. I like Portland.

I have a bunch of friends up there, so I make the drive every now and then and visit.

[Breeze54]

13. What's not to like about Oregon?!

I used to read a lot of books about the pioneers and Oregon was always the main theme and

I LOVED it! :D

I have never been there but I've been close and it's just beautiful country! :D

It's a shame you haven't gotten back to all of us in this thread.

Is everything OK?

[Tom Kitten]

18. everything's OK don't worry about me!

I'm super powerful and remarkably adaptive on top of that! To be honest I have trouble with internet connections...my neighbor who let me piggyback on her signal moved at theend of last month and here I am trying to post regularly without a steady link!That's why I don't reply so fast and it really irritates me as well as you and other readers!

PS I live really near where the pioneers stopped...Oregon City, which man people compare to a miniature Pittsburgh!