Welcome to Oregon

I reluctantly left the Big Trees of Northern California behind to continue up the coast into Oregon. The coastline of California is fantastic, but I personally think that Oregon's coast is even more dramatic.

One thing I noticed just before the border with Oregon: there are lots of little liquor stores set up right by the border advertising their lower prices. It is weird how those little business opportunities can be created by having differing economic policies from one state to another. You see that sort of thing a lot in the south, for example, where the low cigarette prices are advertised heavily when you enter the really cheap tobacco-producing states (both of the Carolinas, for example).

Ahh, federalism in action...