Leave it to literature to shoot holes in my literary holiday. "The best-laid plans of mice and men" - you know the rest. But how delightfully astray they went. I traveled to Oregon's Central Coast for ...

The Oregon coastline, with its frigid beach temperatures and nine-month cloudy season, is still one of Oregon’s most breathtaking tourist destinations. On a good weekend, almost completely empty ...

Fifteen years ago, Paige and Randy Sanders were set to buy the Newport Belle Riverboat Bed and Breakfast and take her away to California where the city of Long Beach eagerly awaited the ...