Oregon Bound? Here's a Web Site to Help You Plan

"Fields is so far out in the desert — it’s about 50 miles south of Frenchglen — that airplanes occasionally land on the highway, pull in to the gas station, and tank up right from the pumps. The tiny town has a great cafe, which serves cheeseburgers and milkshakes and keeps track of the numbers sold each year on a scoreboard. "

So begins a restaurant review in one of the funkiest, but perhaps most useful, blogs on "The Beaver State." While set up in typical blog format, theRealOregon.com does add a handy tool for researching the state--category selection of the site's archives. From "Best Places to Eat," to "Museums" and "Kitsch," for those of us who enjoy the offbeat, 'anything but the standard chamber of commerce fare,' this little site is worth a lookup.

Incidentally, we find it kind of well, different, that a few years back the Beaver State Government folks decided to change their state tourism slogan from, "Oregon: Things Look Different Here," to the currently pushed, "Oregon. We love dreamers." Somehow I enjoyed that runner more: "Spotted Owl: It's What's For Dinner."

The Real Oregon, aptly subtitled, Oregon for the eccentric traveler.

Real Oregon seal, borrowed from theRealOregon.com