Travel Oregon: Mathieu Lakes Region, Dee Wright Observatory

My Dad and "Three Fingered Jack" in the Distance

Stairs at Dee Wright Observatory, Scenic Byway Hwy 242, Oregon

Life is Found Even in This Environment

One of Oregon's Many Mountains. There are plaques with names and windows facing the mountains in the Observatory

Max Dramatic in Oregon, One Year Ago

Observatory Assembled of Weathered Volcanic Rock

This area is located on Highway 242, 15 miles west of Sister's Oregon.

You can only visit this place between late July through September. The highway opened up really late this year due record snowfall. They decided they would have to just wait for the snow to melt because the plows just couldn't get through it! (So I couldn't go on my camping trip I took just before leaving Oregon)

There are spectacular views, and the Willamette forest on the side of the mountains on the McKenzie Valley to Eugene has some of the richest, cleanest, most soothing air you will ever breathe. I miss that place. There are more things to do in the Willamette Valley which I will post pictures of. I was there in fall and the area was spectacular when the colors changed.

For the meantime, enjoy these photos of a surreal environment and the diversity of Oregon's nature. They are all my own, I finally pried them from my camera's internal memory!

I miss my home, but I am on to my next adventure: Living in Japan! (For at least one year!)

For more information about taking an adventure to this area of Oregon, check out this online guide which gives great detail about many adventures Oregon has to offer: http://www.eugeneoutdoors.com/matthieu-lakes-dee-wright-observatory/

Nickelodeon Nostalgia: Rocko's Modern Life

Rocko's Surreal Life by *grungepuppy on deviantART

I guess I'm starting to get so old that I can document the 90s as if they are some sort of far of time. They do feel a bit far off when I come in touch with the television shows that shaped me into... the lovely person I am today :P

Well today I guess I'll give you all a blast of the past, Rocko's Modern Life. Just for those who fondly remember Rocko, Spunky, Heifer, and the promise of a job at Conglomo before Conglomo jumped ship and swam to the overseas markets.

Hopefully it makes people who were a kid during that time feel a little warm and fuzzy. What happened to programming for young people today? Is it massively lower in quality, or is that just me? No shows like these have come on the scene since Spongebob at the beginning of the new millennium.