Hillbilly Home on the Ocean
Brookings, Oregon, has been our home since mid-2002. My wife, Kay, and I are both native born West Virginia hillbillies. A major attraction of the southern Oregon coast: hills. But unlike our native WV, the climate here is mild year round and there is a stupendously beautiful coastline.
For part of the time Brookings has been our home, it was more "home of record" than physical home, since we were traveling in our RV. But even while RV'ing I ended up spending a lot of months living alone in the RV at Driftwood RV Park while Kay was back east taking care of her parents while they were ill.
We bought a house here in Brookings late 2007. We thought it was a good time to buy, since the news was full of stories saying that housing prices had bottomed out and were headed up. So we got what we thought was a decent deal on a house, and watched as the bottom fell out of the housing market and the value of our house plummeted.
Kay has some rather dated photos taken around our house on SmugMug.
Juan de Fuca
There's a sea monster about 40 miles off shore from Brookings: the Juan de Fuca subduction zone. When we moved here we knew there was some tsunami risk. But geologists keep doing research and keep reporting progressively worse news about the risks.
