I live in a ski town and I hate skiing. Oregon is vastly different from Arizona where I grew up. In Bend, we have lots of trees. This would be nice if they weren't the kind I’m allergic to. If only we could have had pine trees in this area instead of juniper trees, this would be a paradise. In the mountain pass going towards the valley, there are even more trees, but these are the kind I like. We drove through forests with waterfalls, rivers and old growth trees as large as the smokestacks of the Old Mill district. Oregon: the state that makes you wonder why anybody would ever live anywhere else or why somebody would think to cut down the wondrous trees that make Oregon so nice.
