So I’m going to road trip to Portland and Roseburg the week before the 4th and through the 4th to visit family. Was planning on hotels etc. Then I see that Multnomah is no longer reopening... Should I stay in a hotel in a different county? Stay in Portland? I know seems like a weird time to travel but I just feel like I need to do it. Planning on being safe and fully understand that there may not be much to do due to covid.
Rent a van, and live in it. And then document it on youtube and make money. Next thing you know, you'll be rich beyond your wildest dreams.
Stay away from Downtown Portland, a festering shithole of destruction and chaos. If you are there around the 4th, chances are there will be some sort of rallies, or what not meaning that your car will be shit on before being set on fire.
I'd go over to the coast to Brookings or Bandon...walk the beaches....if you want a city, Eugene is probably the safest for a city of any size and has lots of parks....you can fish in Roseburg if you enjoy that or you can even fish Alton Baker park in Eugene and enjoy the river....fishing is pretty safe during the pandemic if you keep safe distancing...don't go to Portland though..bad time for that trip...Ashland is a cool place from Roseburg but it's probably a ghost town...Medford had a huge protest so I'd avoid Medford as well
The airports are shitty though. If he's driving, no need to stay by PDX. Maybe stay at McMenamin's Kennedy School?
When our son graduated and went off to college my wife and I took our first vacation together without him along to tour southern Oregon...took our time...Ashland is a cool little Shakespeare festival town with good restaurants...Crater Lake is beautiful....Medford was weird...Roseburg was logging country just like the small town I live near but bigger...great rivers in Roseburg area though
When you do (it will happen eventually), also check out Lava Beds National Monument. Just across the California border, just south of Klamabama.
Did you make it to Jacksonville? Medford is a great sports town with much history. When I played legion ball we always played in Medford at the old stadium. We'd stay there for 3/4nights for tourney ball.
No...we spent one night in Medford...walked around the town, went to a music store and the library...beautiful library...the city seemed dead, boarded up...library was pretty empty...this was quiet a few years ago...2010 or so...we enjoyed Ashland a lot more
My wife and I have never been there. We had reservations a couple summers ago but fires caused it to shut down.
