Coastin'

Cannon Bech, Ecola State Park, Oregon

These past two weeks have been so relaxing, awe-inspiring, and entirely hedonistic. My partner and I did a road trip from Vancouver, BC down the coast all the way to Jessie Honeyman State Park in Oregon. We did a brief stop-over in Portland to eat and drink (even more) on our way to the I-5 heading north. 

I've heard a lot of Canadians bash the food in the states. It's all junk, they say-- pizza, fried chicken and waffles or corn dogs are supposedly the basic food groups. I think some of these Canadians also limit their American visits to crappy hotels in Vegas or music festivals put on by fat, old bachelors who have a whole-food intolerance. These folks have also neglected how most celebrity chefs on the food network are American, and clearly they've never read Langdon Cook's Blog, Fat Of The Land. The reason I've come to this conclusion is because I don't think I've ever eaten better food over a 10-day span as when I was in Oregon and Washington. Not that we ate out very often: we were camping, and camping requires some light meal preparation. But what we prepared was entirely based on what was locally available, and those ingredients were incredible. 

In the following few posts I'll be featuring some of the best meals we ate while travelling, along with some tips on where to stay, what to forage, and a couple markets to check out.