Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Second rate reporter says what?

It is possible to do the right thing without the promise of a cookie.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

Let’s show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.

Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires Republicans to act in good faith.

White supremacy is terrorism.

“Cheese and Kraken paired together for the appetizer trial.”

It’s easier to kill a dangerous animal than a man who just happens to have different thoughts/values than one’s own.

“Loving your country does not mean lying about it’s history.”

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

Let me file that under fuck it.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

Ah, the different things are different argument.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

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frosty

This post is a combination of some of the sights in Northern California as well as the southern Oregon Coast. The first thing that stood out to me was the tsunami warning signs. They were probably posted after the 2011 Fukushima earthquake in Japan (although I didn’t look it up). I thought Oregon’s were a little more dramatic with the stick figure running for the hills. Every time the road descends there’s an “Entering” sign and when it climbs there’s a “Leaving” sign. There are so many dips in Oregon I thought they should just call the whole coast a hazard. If you’re not caught in the tsunami you’ll be hit by the traffic escaping it!

We stopped at a couple of overlooks when we got to Oregon, where we were camping at Humbug Mountain State Park and Beverly Beach State Park. Very scenic!

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California tsunami warning

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Oregon tsunami warning

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Port Orford, looking south to Humbug Mountain

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Humbug Mountain State Park

The beach at Humbug Mountain. This was a short walk from our campsite.

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Devil’s Punchbowl, just north of Beverly Beach

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Bottom of Devil’s Punchbowl, walkable from the beach

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Devil’s Punchbowl in the middle distance, taken from Cape Foulweather, named by Captain Cook in 1778. The curving lines of rocks are ring dikes created by lava invading cracks in the bedrock 15 million years ago. All of these headlands and the offshore “seastacks” are basalt, harder and resistant to erosion, which flowed from 300 miles inland.

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  1. 1.

    Snarlymon

    Definitely on my bucket list. PCH in California is one of my favorite places but I’d love to see more up north.

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    There go two miscreants

    @eclare: Your comment made me scroll back up to look! I missed them the first time — the first picture of the Punchbowl had me thinking it was much smaller.

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    OzarkHillbilly

    Port Orford, looking south to Humbug Mountain

    Wow. They named a mountain just for me. I’m gonna have to pay it a visit.

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    Albatrossity

    Very nice shots of a nice part of the country!

    Did you learn why they named it Humbug? That might be an interesting story!

    And hopefully folks are heeding WaterGirl’s words from Monday and sending in their On The Road pics and commentary. This is a great part of Balloon Juice, and I look forward to it every morning!

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    Xavier

    IMO there are three places in the US that are head and shoulder above the rest: the Maine coast, the Oregon coast, and southern Utah.

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    Chris T.

    Coastal Oregon is beautiful, but actually living there seems a bit, well, brutal to me: much of it is so remote (for good reasons) and both wild weather and tsunami—is this word its own plural?—can be so damaging.

    It’s still a great vacation / holiday trip though!

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    frosty

    @Albatrossity: I agree, I hope WG is getting some OTR submissions. i have two more from this trip, then there’s 2023 I could post. I don’t want OTR to be just my pix! And yours. I like to see all the others too.

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    StringOnAStick

    I’ve seen waves raging inside the Devil’s Punchbowl at high tide, so timing is everything!

    The Oregon coast is so scenic, so much in the way of dramatic rocks and sea stacks.  Lots of nice lighthouses too, because of all those rocks.  I’ll try to put together a post on some of the lighthouses.

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    Dan B

    The tsunami warning signs have been in place long before Fukushima.  I don’t remember how long.  The sad thing is that many roads may be impassable so the warnings may not be effective.

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    JustRuss

    We have a friend who grew up about 200 yards from the Punchbowl.  Her family still owns the house, we’ve rented it a few times, one of my favorite places.

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    way2blue

    And just for fun, a M5.7 earthquake offshore Port Orford today.  Weakly felt onshore to be sure…

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