rsoderberg / Richard Soderberg

This photo is of a fenced path leading towards the river bike trail near EWEB. Some of the bike paths are longer than bus routes. In good weather with a well-kept bicycle I occasionally beat the bus to the downtown station using the roads and paths.

Two hours drive out of town is deep woods where seeing another car once in a day is unusual. It’s between many cities – Salem and Bend and Newport and Roseburg and Portland. There’s an airport that may still be international.

Flourishing downtown night life, little shops everywhere during the day. Good food to be found. Bike paths are crowded during the day and empty at night (aside from odd people and the occasional patrol car). University campus is laced with pedestrian and bicycle trails leading to everywhere; carry a pedestrian map.

Small (and not so small) co-ops are everywhere; they sell among other things energy-efficient light bulbs, bicycle repair, healthy foods, and internet.

Technology companies have been a driving force in the area for many years. Concentrated areas of town are saturated with Internet, with badly-wired residential areas beginning to harness wireless. The university contributes to IPv6 in various ways. Programmers, engineers, and system administrators are everywhere.

There is a James Turrell piece, titled Trace Elements: Light Into Space, in the Museum’s collection. While plans are not definite, we hope to put it back on view once the new Museum complex opens in fall 2006.