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Oregon 2023 Travelog #5
Eugene, OR. Sun, 2 Jul 2023, 10:30pm
Ugh. It looks like I'm falling behind on blogging about this trip. As usual, I note, though with the added proviso it's not because of lack of will or ability but lack of time. I am quite simply too busy this trip to spend much time writing about it. Oh, and too sick... but more about that later.
Sunday morning we started with a visit to the Cascade Raptor Center on the south side of Eugene. They're a private non-profit organization that has two missions. One is the rehabilitation of injured raptors. The other is education, educating the public about these special and beautiful birds. We booked a semi-private tour Sunday morning. Twelve of us walked around the site with a trainer who showed off several of the birds. We saw demos with a peregrine falcon, an American kestrel, a great horned owl, a burrowing owl, an aplomado falcon, and others.
After the birds we circled back through town to refuel for our afternoon adventure. "Refuel" didn't involve gas, just lunch. Okay, maybe it involved gas, the kind that comes later. 😟 We ate at a regional chain called Killer Burger. Yes, the name was part of the reason we went there. There's nothing really murderous about it, though, other than that every burger comes with bacon? So maybe the name is shortened from "Pig-Killer Burger".
In the afternoon we drove east about 60 miles into the coast range mountains for Kentucky Falls. Yes, in the middle of nowhere in Oregon is Kentucky Falls. Why is it called Kentucky way out here? I don't know. Nothing about it reminds me of Kentucky. I've been to Kentucky; they don't have falls this pretty. On the hike I saw not one, not two, but three great waterfalls. The third took some doing to get to. By "doing" I mean that I basically climbed over rocks and downed trees in the middle of a river. Pics to come!
On the way back to Eugene from the hike I started to feel a bit iffy. "I just need food," I figured. I nibbled on a protein bar in the car (since food in town was still 90+ minutes away) and kept well hydrated. We ate at a grill-and-bar type place near our hotel. As I ate I started feeling worse. I took a pepto pill and finished only half my meal. Up in the room, I took a gas pill. See, "refueling" at lunch meant "eat and get gas"! 😖 At least I think it was lunch coming back to haunt me. Despite the pills the pain wasn't going away so I laid down and moaned for a while. Then I fell asleep for about two hours. Now I'm back up and... not feeling wholly better yet. I'll settle back down to sleep in a moment, hoping I'm 100% (or close to it) again in the morning.
Update: Whatever I was suffering Sunday night it was gone Monday morning. I felt 100%, and we had an absolutely packed day hiking 7 waterfalls!
Eugene, OR. Sun, 2 Jul 2023, 10:30pm
Ugh. It looks like I'm falling behind on blogging about this trip. As usual, I note, though with the added proviso it's not because of lack of will or ability but lack of time. I am quite simply too busy this trip to spend much time writing about it. Oh, and too sick... but more about that later.
Sunday morning we started with a visit to the Cascade Raptor Center on the south side of Eugene. They're a private non-profit organization that has two missions. One is the rehabilitation of injured raptors. The other is education, educating the public about these special and beautiful birds. We booked a semi-private tour Sunday morning. Twelve of us walked around the site with a trainer who showed off several of the birds. We saw demos with a peregrine falcon, an American kestrel, a great horned owl, a burrowing owl, an aplomado falcon, and others.
After the birds we circled back through town to refuel for our afternoon adventure. "Refuel" didn't involve gas, just lunch. Okay, maybe it involved gas, the kind that comes later. 😟 We ate at a regional chain called Killer Burger. Yes, the name was part of the reason we went there. There's nothing really murderous about it, though, other than that every burger comes with bacon? So maybe the name is shortened from "Pig-Killer Burger".
In the afternoon we drove east about 60 miles into the coast range mountains for Kentucky Falls. Yes, in the middle of nowhere in Oregon is Kentucky Falls. Why is it called Kentucky way out here? I don't know. Nothing about it reminds me of Kentucky. I've been to Kentucky; they don't have falls this pretty. On the hike I saw not one, not two, but three great waterfalls. The third took some doing to get to. By "doing" I mean that I basically climbed over rocks and downed trees in the middle of a river. Pics to come!
On the way back to Eugene from the hike I started to feel a bit iffy. "I just need food," I figured. I nibbled on a protein bar in the car (since food in town was still 90+ minutes away) and kept well hydrated. We ate at a grill-and-bar type place near our hotel. As I ate I started feeling worse. I took a pepto pill and finished only half my meal. Up in the room, I took a gas pill. See, "refueling" at lunch meant "eat and get gas"! 😖 At least I think it was lunch coming back to haunt me. Despite the pills the pain wasn't going away so I laid down and moaned for a while. Then I fell asleep for about two hours. Now I'm back up and... not feeling wholly better yet. I'll settle back down to sleep in a moment, hoping I'm 100% (or close to it) again in the morning.
Update: Whatever I was suffering Sunday night it was gone Monday morning. I felt 100%, and we had an absolutely packed day hiking 7 waterfalls!
