On our way back from the beach side of Oregon, we stopped at a quaint little coffee shop that I had seen on my way to the beach. It was literally in the middle of the forest and near to just about nothing. A local lady runs the place. Her daughter was helping her during summer vacation. She has been in business for five years and said they are doing good business wise. The tea and the smoothie was great. If you ever find yourself on Hwy 26 heading from Portland to the ocean, stop by Sunset Coffee. It is nineteen and a half miles from Seaside…

This is in a small place called Seaside. The more imaginative of you must have figured out that this is by the sea side.

We have a big soccer fan in Nikita. USA is not exactly the place for soccer fans. But we were in Portland. So we got Nikita – with help from my friends Matt and Christine – to a Thorns game. Thorns has 9 players in the USA World Cup squad playing Japan in the finals on Sunday (none of whom are of course in this game today). She is super excited…

This is the shot that I (luckily) captured of Thorns pulling ahead of the Sky Blue (New Jersey) team…

Going up from the timberline to the snowline of Mount Hood…

That is what this bridge is called that spans over Columbia river connecting Oregon to Washington state. I wonder whether the two states keep bickering about which side gets to be Heaven 🙂