Congestion and beauty

Brookings is a very car oriented town. I-101 is the main street going through town. As I mentioned yesterday... cars, cars, and more cars!  It is fairly easy to get away from all this by going to the back neighborhoods, only problem being that there are very aggresive guard dogs in front of houses, including some that will nearly leap over the fences that surround and protect their houses. Scary,

People here are quite friendly. We had a discussion in a supermarket with a woman who told us wh Brookings is great for vegetarians. We also had a discussion with our desk clerk, who told us all about how much she thinks people who get tattooes and dye their hair purple or pink won;t feel at home in rural Oregon. She laughed her way through this conversation.

Beaches here are lovely. The sand is bkacl, it originated as basalt that was thrown from volcanoes. Huge basalt bounders and other rock formations stand right off shore. The formations are twisted and torn in a thousand angles, the way volcanic rocks often are. Cormorants, large black ocean birds, sit on rock formations, and black oystercatchers
forage on the beach, grapping food in their crimson beaks. Meantime, the ocean crashes, and will not stop. The sun is blinding gold when it sets.

A preliminary description. More to come.