I’ve always loved the rockier coastline beaches. I’ve never been able to take a vacation like this, though. The one time we had one nearly planned, a medical issue intervened.

But this year is my 20th wedding anniversary and I am thinking about this pretty hard. In 20 years, we’ve spent maybe half our anniversaries together; our first anniversary together was our 4th. This morning I was leafing through my journals and found that between 1987 and 1997 I only mentioned four anniversaries – our first (we were apart), our fourth (our first together), one which we celebrated by going out to dinner, and one which we celebrated by going fishing. The ones for which we weren’t together aren’t even referenced.

My sister is celebrating her 10th and they’ve planned a romantic getaway, which got me thinking. Somehow, my husband and I – probably because anniversaries were so hit-and-miss – never really established a celebratory tradition. But 20 years is something.

So, maybe the Oregon coast. I’d like to find a rental on the beach, maybe in a less-magnetic area where the rates might be a bit on the lower end of Oregon coastal rates.