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Sandra Scott Travels

Sandra Scott Travels: Retracing The Trek Along The Oregon Trail

May 17, 2019 Contributor
The Willamette Valley is a 150-mile long valley in Oregon and was the terminus of the Oregon Trail. Some made it, others settled along the way, some branched off and went to California in search of gold. Others died, and some were born on the trail. I have always been fascinated by the Oregon Trail.

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Sandra Scott Travels: Explore Some Of Portland’s Notorious Past

May 3, 2019 Contributor
I spent Easter in Portland, Oregon, with my son, Jim. One of the things I wanted to do was to check out the Shanghai Tunnels so Jim booked the “Underground Walking Tour.” I had read that, in the 1800s, sailors were not eager so sign up to work on a ship headed to far-flung ports so a contractor would get sailors drunk and put them on a ship headed East.

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Sandra Scott Travels: Baja, A Home Away From Home

April 26, 2019 Contributor
In the early ’90s, shortly have my son, John, moved to Las Vegas we made a road trip to San Felipe, Mexico, never imagining the decades later he and his wife would buy a beach house there. It was a can’t-pass-up deal mainly because housing prices plummeted when the housing market went south so there were great deals to be had.

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Sandra Scott Travels: Come On, Get Healthy – In The Forest

April 19, 2019 Contributor
After months of cabin fever people are anxious to get outdoors but many people do not realize the benefits of spending time in nature. The idea that spending time in the natural world with no head phones and no cell phones is not new. The Japanese healing way of Shinrin-yoku Forest Therapy is the medicine of simply being in the forest.

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