Hi,
 
Just went from Portland to south of Florence, via I-5 and then Hwy 228, then Hwy 99 to Junction City, and then Hwy 36 to Florence and then south on 101 to Lakeshore ... and then back 3 days later ... 
 
There is only one thing to say ... 
 
HOW MANY SHADES OF GREEN CAN YOU COUNT?
 
Absolute pristine beauty all the way!

50 shades of green, and strange hippie-sex.

Procol Harum did that juan first, A Greener Shade of Cyan

Go a few miles west and you're in a rain forest.  A few miles east and you're in high desert.  60 miles west and you're at the beach, 60 miles east and you're in the mountains.  45 miles north and you're on what looks like a different planet (Mt. St. Helens).  Lots to see around here apart from the unwashed masses and village idiots.