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The wonderful thing about vacation is that nothing is familiar.<\/span><\/font> Every mile that passes brings you a new visual experience. I’m excited to be in a town for the first time. Crossing a state line gives me a thrill completely out of proportion to the true magnitude of the achievement. I think most of us feel this way. Admit it, you <\/font><\/a>have<\/font> to read the “Welcome to Oregon” sign <\/font>in a loud, happy voice, don’t you?<\/font><\/p>\n

Yesterday we aw<\/font><\/font>oke in Klamath Falls.<\/font> This morning, a couple hundred miles <\/font>north, near Madras, I watched the sun rise on a panorama of lush, green farm<\/font> land along a wide r<\/font>ushing <\/font>stream called Crooked River. Isn’t that delightful? Of course it is.
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Along the r<\/font>oad just south of Redmond we visited the Petersen Rock Garden<\/a> just because we <\/font>could. For sixty years it has stood as a mind-numbing four acre collection of self-made tributes to the ambitious eccentricity of a Danish immigrant named Rasmus Petersen, who picked up a couple of rocks one day and decided that building <\/font>miniature cities out of small stones was his divine purpose on Earth.<\/font><\/p>\n

Scoff if you will, most of us <\/font><\/font>never figure out why we’re here.<\/font>
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A few mi<\/font><\/font>l<\/font><\/font>es farther north brought us to Shaniko, an old West town that sprang <\/font><\/font><\/a>up <\/font><\/font>during the 1860s. <\/font>Originally called<\/font> Cross Hollow it was renamed after the town’s postmaster, August Sc<\/font>herneckau, who must have been a s<\/font>well guy to receive such an honor but the locals apparently (and reasonably) decided trying to learn to spell his name properly was too much to ask of anybody.<\/font><\/p>\n

But here’s the thing about road trips:<\/font> some of the most awe-inspiring sights you stumble across have no explanation, no real purpose, indeed no reason whatsoever for existing <\/font>except that they do.
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This tree, for example…<\/font><\/font><\/a>

\n<\/font>We came upon it unexpectedly. Without fanfare, announceme<\/font>nt, <\/font>roadside glorification plaque nor explanation it just sits there, adorned with hundreds of shoes passersby felt compelled to deposit in its branches.<\/font>

\n<\/font><\/font>There’s a wonderful story here but I can’t find it.<\/font><\/p>\n

And for some reason that makes it all the more wonderful.<\/font>
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