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By the Boss, Wednesday, August 8, 2007 9:16 am

The New York Times has a great story today by a reporter who headed across the Eastern Oregon desert in his 1989 Volvo and lived to tell the tale. Matt Gross, writing as The Frugal Traveler, has been chronicling a road trip from the east coast to the Pacific Ocean; in this installment he checks on some of The Real Oregon’s favorite places, from Burns to the Pete French Round Barn and the Alvord Desert.

Read his account here.

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By the Boss, Saturday, June 30, 2007 6:17 am

“Oregon’s new State Capitol, built at a cost of $2,500,000, replaces the one destroyed by fire the night of April 25, 1935. A 24-foot bronze statue of the Pioneer by Sculptor Ulric H. Ellerhusen tops the Capitol dome,” reads the back of this postcard.