On a whim, we decided to drive to drive to Portland for a night and spend the following day driving up the Oregon coast. Neither of us had visited Portland before and it’s only a few hours from Seattle.
We were only in Portland for a night but it seemed like a great city. There were a ton of restaurants and it’s a fairly walkable city. The drive up the Oregon coast was really pretty. There are miles of empty beaches (it’s still a little cold!) so we had fun running and skipping on the beach.
View our Oregon coast photos.