go with the flow

On the central Oregon Coast, Alice Gregory finds easygoing small towns, forest-framed beaches, and an unhurried way of life refreshingly far removed from the world of hipsters and influencers

Our destination was the small beach town of Manzanita, Oregon, but the vacation started the moment we got into the rental car in Portland. With startling quickness, we were out of the city and into the woods, careening our way through oldgrowth conifer forests on roads that belonged in a car commercial. My husband, Leon, was driving, and I was in the back seat with our year-old daughter, Tess, who seemed to love as much as I did the dense dark green out the window. Brambles of blackberry bushes grew along the shoulders and wildflowers bloomed. What appeared at first to be thorny branches were elk that scamperedo into the thickets. The sky shone. Even the businesses (an improbable-seeming quantity of lumberyards, a purveyor of exotic meat jerky housed in…

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Conde Nast Traveler (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2025

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