



I booked onto the next American embassy organized repatriation flight via Washington DC which was about a week and a half later. Anyways, without going into a whole lot of detail my guy and I broke up.

There was a period of time when we were on 24hr lock down and couldn’t leave the compound though. Thankfully, we were living on a large western compound so we could go out walking. We were mostly on a curfew with our movement being restricted to the area we lived in- so my only real outings were to the grocery store. I was super unproductive and really anxious. There were some embassy repatriation flights, but you couldn’t fly animals on them so I decided to just sit tight. So as the weeks progressed pretty much every couple weeks my new scheduled flight would be canceled. At that time I was content to hang out in Saudi until my Lufthansa flight was rescheduled, because I didn’t want to risk exposure by traveling and because I was safe with my guy and my pup. This isn’t exactly a tale of Covid, but I’m just painting the backdrop of the story. Suddenly, the world was a very uncertain place, and now looking back I really wasn’t coping with the uncertainty very well. And then Covid-19 arrived, and like many of you it wiped out any future plans I had. I finished up my work contract in February, and was set to fly home with Moshen, our Saudi rescue pup at the beginning of April. Last you knew I was still stuck in Saudi. Pretty much every aspect of my life has changed and it took a long while for me to catch my breath. Everything I knew about my life 2 months ago is no more. You see….my world quite literally fell apart. I just couldn’t find the words to describe what has happened over the last 2 months. The place is downright ethereal, doubly so if you had the foresight to visit the Herbal Choices dispensary in town.So sorry my lovely readers. At low tide, you can walk right up to them and poke at the colorful anemones. The crescent-shaped alcove-whose sands are made to look extra golden by the surrounding deep green hills-is teeming with huge sea stacks, some of which resemble marine cousins to the trippy hoodoos of the southwest. The size of the area makes it easy to find complete isolation.īandon Beach, meanwhile, has a more dreamlike quality despite butting up against a semi-lively (at least in Oregon coast terms) beach town.
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Windswept Bullards Beach plays the hits: Here you'll find a nearly four-mile stretch of sand that spiderwebs off into a network of hiking and mountain biking trails (and campsites), plus the requisite lighthouse on the Coquille River. Except near the tiny town of Bandon, where you'll find two of the best beaches in the region. Unlike the northern coast, where the marquee beaches are seemingly stacked on top of one another, things get fewer and farther between as you travel south.
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Movie nerds can get a glimpse of two icons: Haystack Rock is visible from the same vista where you can also gaze upon the beach where Point Break 's final scene went down. Just north of downtown, you'll also find Ecola State Park, which encompasses a vista-intensive nine miles of coastline packed with alcoves, lush forest, and the golden sands of Indian Beach. Hit up the palatial new(ish) Pelican Brewing location and Public Coast Brewing for to-go beers, grab a Dungeness crab cocktail from the Ecola Seafood shack, then head down to the beach for some playful ambling under that big-ass rock. Speaking of cold beer: Cannon Beach is one of two towns in Oregon where it’s legal to wander around with an open container ( Hood River is the other ). Depending on your worldview, the scene will feel straight out of a Sigur Rós video or a Miller Chill commercial. The wide beaches in its shadow are perfect for playing fetch with your dog or lighting up a fire and cracking open a cold boy or two. (Yes, it's the Goonies rock.) The towering 235-foot column of basalt was formed by lava millions of years ago, and today it’s one of the most visited attractions on the coast (and establishes this as one of the world's best beaches, period). Haystack Rock is essentially the Oregon Coast's mascot.
