This channel focuses on travel, both local travel and longer distance travel. It also includes bits and bobs of things that interest me, including small art projects.
After watching this I think a moon set is very underrated People always talk about sunset 🌅 But no One Ever talks about moon sets They don’t know what they are missing
@@glowingfish I was just kind of making that comment because it’s normally human that are scared of snakes. At least that’s the myth but I think that most the time they are actually more scared of us.
O man, I think I know the exact day this was just a few weeks ago. I was hiking in the area close to you, Sweeny ridge, I got caught in the storm also.
I lived in Springfield (*cough) briefly in 1999. From May to October of that year, I rode my bike almost every day all around the trails that existed then.... I can still remember the smell of the air and all the blackberries on one part of the trail! HUGE blackberries...
LOL when you said you smelled weed - that was also common. As was, at the time, people shooting heroin in parks (at benches in public!) and they were using more bike patrol cops at the time... I think I lived there at a strange time.
I remember that community garden! WOW! 25 years ago when I rode my bike there last (my brother still has that bike, a 30 year old TREK mt bike made in USA)
I am glad the video brought up good memories. I actually feel bad sometimes that with all the things I can capture in my videos, smells aren't one of them. There is that dry late summer smell in the Pacific Northwest, maybe with the smell of those huge blackberries wafting in the air...whenever I go back, it just takes me back.
Strange thing about heroin, or other hard drugs---I don't think I am naive, and I travel a lot, but I've never seen someone injecting drugs in public. There is a lot of talk about the prevalence of drug abuse in Oregon right now, (and in the past), but I haven't noticed it as being everpresent.
Howdy Mathew. Bit of history of Kiger Island. I lived very near there as a kid 1980 to 1984. I fished that bridge, under the bridge, swam there and had several friends that lived on the island. Your opening, that housing development - that used to be huge fields they grew straw and hay. Every few years they burned the fields. Looking toward the bridge at the beginning. The hose next to the bridge in the right was a dairy, I was friends with the two boys that live there and that field was covered in dairy cattle. Kiger island bridge in the early 80s - as you went down the the water. There’s a rock island there - in my time is was barren of trees and just a few bushes with tree starts growing. I caught my first salmon where you were standing just off to the right. Across the water under the bridge was the end of the rock spit, good fishing back in my day and swimming!!! As you went down the island I saw 2 friends houses (we rode the bus to kiger before they let me off). I rode down that gravel road on my bike 5000 times I bet. Back then they grew strawberries and corn, every spring they sprayed chicken manure (it was awful) really neat area. When I was a kid there was still remains the the bases to the old covered bridge (it went across the left side of the bridge as you look at it in your opening) Back then all those houses weren’t there, in fact (Charlotte st off of river drive) we’re just starting to build houses. We walked to Lincoln school and the 7-11 just up the way from Lincoln school was the hang out. You mention the smell and to this day the smell of that river, kiger island still remind me of home! Thank you for that video! This fall I’m gonna build a diorama for my n scale train set of that bridge as it was in 1980 to 1984.
Thank you very much for watching and commenting! One reason I do so many videos like this, is that even though it might seem like a lot of detail for the general viewer, sometimes I get to capture something that was very important to someone, or also something that is historically/environmentally important. Also, if you like trains, I have many train videos---not model, but trains I've ridden, in the United States and Costa Rica. I also have a lot of videos in and around Corvallis. As you have probably seen---in fact, I saw a comment that you made about the Adair Village video, but now I can't find it?
@@glowingfish yup I did, Adair village has a ton of memories for me as well. I’ll be subscribing for sure! I watched your Avery park video, that train!!! So cool. I’m old enough to remember (I was very very young) real hippies playing frisbee in those open areas of Avery park. In the 70s my mom was part of the rose garden ladies and those trees were tiny back then lol. Avery used to be a huge hub for OSU and for parents / kids, in the early 80s that started changing from its glory days. The whale bones (you didn’t show them) was where we kids learned to climb AND hit the ground hard. Those industrial buildings weren’t there, it was all field and you could see 99 from Avery on the 99w side of the park. Anyways, a ton of memories from there, it’s neat to see it. Last time I was there was in 17 for the eclipse. We moved from Corvallis in summer 84. I went to college in Springfield after I returned from the navy and lived in Springfield and Eugene for a few years before moving away from Oregon. I have strong roots in oregon and Washington.. oh.. btw.. it’s not THE puget sound… just “puget sound” lol :) Want a fun video trip? Eastern oregon - skeleton cave… my father and I in 1977 went to the back of that cave, and in a whim my father figured there was an exit.. we made the exit to skeleton cave. But, he covered it back up… I’ve heard someone dug it back out. In those days the cave entrance (all of them) were just holes in the ground, no hand rails etc. Also, under kiger island bridge where you went down the steep path. Just under the bridge next to the step path written on one of those beams is “platinum puma” (long story) but I scratched that into the bridge support in 1983. It’s a reference to ad and d. Kiger island didn’t have stores etc on it when I was a kid, it’s always been farmland. In fact, other then the trees groaning taller, it looks the same. Just, always been that way :) it’s a special place and A LOT of history follows kiger island.
@@BushcraftTexas I would certainly like to do an Eastern Oregon trip, but closest I've come so far is Hood River. One of the reasons I made this channel is that in the past, I went to a lot of places in the Pacific Northwest...and realize I would have liked to have a better record. I lived on the South Coast in 2013, and visited all the towns between Brookings and Coos Bay---and now, I really wish I had a record of those trips! But who knows where I will go next...
The big difference is that outside of the shadowed ravines, this forest is way more open. And drier. So it feels different than most of McDonald-Dunn. And also, of course, much less people here.
I agree, no offense to the town or the people, but for me, the number one draw here is nature. Maybe why I have made more videos about the mountains than the towns... even though the town videos are much more popular.
They actually seem to have stopped maintaining their own web page, and just use a Facebook page: facebook.com/grupocaribenos?locale=es_LA Traveling in Costa Rica can be difficult for this reason---it is sometimes hard to find information, and it is just assumed that people know where things are. My bus ride wasn't 4 hours, but it was close. A little over 3 hours? It is too far for a day trip, unless you are really motivated.
One thing I love about the river here is that it has so many sides to it, like in places its a deep rushing river and then it becomes almost a swamp in places. And that is just in a small stretch in a park next to town! So there is so much to see.
@@eduardodiaz5877 I was planning to go to Guanacaste, in my last weeks in Costa Rica. I wanted to go to Puntarenas, take a ferry across the Gulf of Nicoya, and visit different places in Guanacaste. But then, in my last few weeks there, I was pretty tired out, and I ended up not doing that plan. That is one of my biggest trips I want to take my next time back.
(I thought I replied to this, but it isn't showing) Yep, although one thing is that the time "before cars" only lasted a generation. For the settlers, at least...obviously the native people were there for thousands of years without cars!
Cool trip you did that day. I'm a train operator at VTA Light Rail and yes our trains can be slow sometimes, if you went the opposite way from diridon towards Winchester, the trains operating speed for the next 5 station is actually full speed at 55 mph. The fun local trip I do about once a month is making a complete circle around the bay and riding as many trains as possible. I usually start on VTA Light Rail, take caltrain up to San Francisco, ride muni around san francisco for a few hours, and then come home through the east Bay on BART back to VTA Light Rail. Hope you had fun that day, reminded me of the trips I do where my goal is to ride as many trains as possible.
It was a cool trip! I hope you didn't take what I said about VTA personally---basically, it seems to me that like a lot of systems, the VTA was designed when the area was very different. I actually talk about that in my Portland MAX video, as well. I would love to do a version of this trip where I also take SMART and ACE, but it might be a while before that happens!
@glowingfish myself and many others have the same criticisms of our system! One of the reasom you were stopped so much at random intersections is because a lot of our signal priority is broken or only works about 60-70% of the time.
I Love the sound of that rushing creek. What a great place to hike. I just came back from a 2 hour night hike, or rather walk through Tallahassee neighborhoods, with the sounds of occasional cars and scooters going by. There are still piles of branches, cut up fallen trees by the side of the road from the bad storm we had 3 weeks ago.
It is a nice place to hike! I was actually hiking with my sister, and we were talking, which is why I only got a few sections of the hike---which is why this video is a bit shorter. It is hard to really describe what a two hour hike is like in a 4 minute video, but hopefully this gave a hint of it!
Hamilton and Ravalli county is a center for far right Christian Nationalists, much like the white supremacists in northern Idaho. The citizenry is heavily armed and potentially violent. Every political office is held by MAGA members. The confederate flag is not an uncommon sight. That said, the area is beautiful and there are some wonderful people living there, keeping their heads low and mouths shut.
That is a fair thing to think about, and I have certainly noticed that sociopolitically, I feel like more of an outsider than I did 15 years ago. But also, just like I have found that cities like Portland and San Francisco are in no way like the right-wing fever dream (and I have videos of both), I've also not noticed Hamilton being overtly hostile. That is my short answer. (Also, btw, I see this comment on my comments tab in studio, but not on the actual video, so I don't know if this reply will even work)
