• Jzionna's Wanderings
  • Jzionna's Wanderings

With Dog will Travel✨️💖🚶‍♀🐕

With my dog Azul, I will drive and hike the Oregon Coast for one week. Exploring the many small coastal nooks of Oregon. Läs mer
  • Resans start
    29 juli 2024

    Driving the Oregon Coast

    29 juli 2024, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C

    When you have certain intentions of what your trip will be, but it evolves into something else, all one can do is allow for the element of surprise. How often do we wake in the morning and say, "What should we do today?" Or "Where should we go?" Without an agenda set in place, it's like free falling.✨️Läs mer

  • Our first morning breakfast with crows.

    30 juli 2024, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C

    We arrived in Lincoln City on the Oregon Coast with the intention to find those pretty glass balls hidden on the beach by local glass blowers. But it was pouring rain. Car camping is more of a challenge when clothing and fur are sopping wet.
    I continued driving south. Though it is refreshing to be in rain and clear air. Away from smoke and heat! 🥵 This morning, we woke up in Jessie Honeyman Memorial State Park campground at the edge of Florence. I opened the door of my car, which set off the car horn at 6:30 am. I'm sure there were obscenities cursed at the waking of many, oops😬. Though the arguing crows can challenge any car alarm.
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  • Evening Sunset in Bandon

    30–31 juli 2024, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C

    There was no rain, just a warm lit sunset. I found a spot to park my car against a tree covered area, and we slept quite comfortably last night. I love Bandon!

  • Heceta Light House

    30 juli 2024, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C

    The walk-up to Heceta Light House is an easy walk that takes you through a lush green wooded trail. There would be gorgeous views, I'm sure, if it wasn't such a grey rainy day. But even this day was perfectly beautiful!Läs mer

  • Early Morning Walk

    1 augusti 2024, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☀️ 13 °C

    I could walk on the beach every day for the rest of my life! My 13 year old Azul ran like a young dog all over the beach, always keeping one eye on me.
    I met Eddy on the beach, who has been nursing a seagull for a week. He says the bird was stumbling on his driveway when he picked him up, noticing it had paralyzed feet. He's nursing it in a cage at his home, hoping it recovers. Though daily, he brings the bird to the ocean to view it. He says it likes it and enjoys the car ride. I see he's become very attached to this bird.Läs mer

  • Amy in Ophir

    1–2 aug. 2024, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C

    This woman is the most amazing and resilient person I know. She makes a beautiful home wherever she goes. Thirty years of friendship, and we're still standing strong. It was a relief to take a break from car camping and be welcomed into her lovely forrest nook in Ophir Oregon. Grilled salmon and freshly picked peas, beans, and zuccini for dinner. It was my first hot meal in days. Azul and Kitty kept a respectful space between each other. And there was no friction between them. For a cat and a dog first meeting one another, they acted like they were old roommates.
    A walk on the beach at sunset was the cherry on top of a perfectly beautiful day!
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  • BEACH ART

    2 augusti 2024, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C

    There are so many shapes and textures at the sea shore. I was fascinated with the design of seagull droppings on the sand. They smear into swimming fish. Walking on a beach does open your eyes and stretch your creative perspective. No wonder why so many artists live on the coast. There's a rhythm and a slower pace that allows for introspection. The wind keeps the imagination stirring. And we can breathe here!
    There is also raw, unpolished character on the coast. Unpretentious, salty, and rough. Humanity in their basic form is refreshing. There is not a whole lot of entertainment being spoon-fed to you. You must find it in the scenery and within.
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  • Brookings to Crissey Fields Beach

    4 augusti 2024, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C

    It's not as easy as it used to be, finding available campsites to stay overnight while traveling. There is no longer the first to arrive who will get dibbs at a sight. The spotinaety of seek and find treasure spots for camping is almost impossible without online reservations. In my week long road trip along the coast of Oregon, the first night, I got lucky in Lincoln City. I pulled up to a campsite registry booth, and the young man had just hung up the phone with a cancellation, I paid $23.00 for a raw campsite. Because it was pouring rain, there was no place to cook my can of soup. Azul and I snuggled into the back of my Bronco Sport car ( which is a bit on the short side, I discovered). In the morning, the rain had stopped, and I was able to set up the picnic table for brewing coffee and cooking oatmeal. But that was the last campsite available on this road trip. The other nights, I parked on quiet nooks beside roads and slept in a couple of rest stops. I had one pampered sleepover at Amy's in Ophir.
    Leaving the Brookings Harbor, Azul and I stopped at Crissey Fields to have another beach walk. I enjoy seeing all the driftwood architecture on almost every beach.
    And there, I found my heart rock 🪨 💕. It's a rather wonky heart, but it's a heart all the same.
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  • Forest Bathing

    5–8 aug. 2024, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☀️ 35 °C

    The Japenese call a walk in the woods "Forest Bathing."
    It does feel that way! In the presence of those enormous gentle redwood beings! With great respect, I entered their private, ancient home. I stepped into their pool of warm, delightful mix of aromas. My feet gave into the soft earth. There's a holy quietness there. Every sound is filtered through moss padded woods. Birds call, limbs bump and wave in the breeze. I could lay there all day, on a moss covered log, absorbing, and never get bored.
    I did hear other voices in a distance, other chattier visitors.
    A small man with a long grey beard and hair appeared behind me while I was taking pictures. A childhood story came to mind. I believed for a moment that Rumpalstilskin was standing there.
    "Would you like me to take a picture of you and your dog?" He kindly asked. And of course I did, and so he did. His name was Richard.
    This concludes my week long coastal road trip. Every time I get away to wander to the coast and woods, I ask myself, "Why don't I do this more often?" Good question! I will keep asking that question until I make it a habit of doing it more often.
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    Resans slut
    5 augusti 2024