Where There Is a Road

$6,250

by Taryn Okesson

Oregon

The word Oregon tastes like air in the mouth. We made it to exactly the the same spot as last year before the world started shutting down, just across the California border. This feels like a milestone. We are here and the states aren’t shutting their doors and windows in our faces.
We stopped to rest. To breath. To relax.

Things about Oregon so far:

  • $6,250 is the fine for littering
  • You aren’t allowed to pump your own gas
  • Lincoln City, on the coast, squirrel away glass floats on the beaches for a game of finders/keepers.
  • When they say marijuana is legal… there are shops▪️

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Landscape image of tree size driftwood stacked up on the Pacific coast beach in Oregon. Travel Photography and travel writing by Marquette Michigan visual Artist Taryn Okesson.
Seaweed and volcanic rock detail of the Pacific coast beach in Oregon. Travel Photography and travel writing by Marquette Michigan visual Artist Taryn Okesson.
The waves roll in as light breaks through heavy cloud cover on the Pacific coast beach in Oregon. Travel Photography and travel writing by Marquette Michigan visual Artist Taryn Okesson.
Reflections, a Volcanic rock, dramatic clouds and a seagull in this black and white landscape photograph of a pacific coast beach in Oregon. Travel Photography and travel writing by Marquette Michigan visual Artist Taryn Okesson.
The ocean reflects yellow light as the sun gets close to setting and light breaks through clouds over the Pacific Ocean in Oregon. Travel Photography and travel writing by Marquette Michigan visual Artist Taryn Okesson.
Landscape photograph during some weather of waves, rain, dark clouds, and volcanic rocks on the pacific coast beach in Oregon. Travel Photography and travel writing by Marquette Michigan visual Artist Taryn Okesson.
An interesting white line runs through a pacific coast beach rock in Oregon. Travel Photography and travel writing by Marquette Michigan visual Artist Taryn Okesson.
Detail image of black and gold sand patterns at a pacific coast beach in Oregon. Travel Photography and travel writing by Marquette Michigan visual Artist Taryn Okesson.
Landscape, looking over the coastline, blue skies and teal ocean meet. the pacific coast in Oregon. Travel Photography and travel writing by Marquette Michigan visual Artist Taryn Okesson.

Artist, Wanderer, Homebody
Lover of Cats

Taryn Okesson

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