We recently took a trip to Lincoln City to spend time with my parents. They rented a house in the Olivia Beach development and invited us to join them for an extended weekend.

I always feel a kinship with the Central Oregon Coast as I worked there for six years in the early part of my career. I’m happier to just visit now as the climate can be wearying while living there year-round. Oregonians think they know rain, but it’s something entirely different in a coastal climate. Damp. Everything is damp. Always. I’ve written extensively about my time there in the Newport Tales, and at some point I need to continue that series. There are quite a few more tales, some outlandish, to be shared!

While visiting, I also met up with my good friend, Ron Eggert. He was the sales manager at KSND during most of my tenure. A lot of craziness happened at that place. The things he talked me into! He could sell, that’s for sure.

Ron would come in early while I was doing the morning show, and we’d chat about life and myriad other topics. He had some gems: “No bad days” and “Quit wishing and go fishing” were a couple of my favorites. One thing he said to me many times was that he hoped when we had long gone our own ways that we’d always remember the fun we had together. Consider that mission accomplished, buddy.

Though I was a resident at one time and have countless pictures of ocean, sand and bridges, I never tire of photographing the landscape — even now. I’m sharing the best photos from the weekend here including a great picture of Ron and me taken by his wife, Nancy:

September into early October has some of the best weather on the coast, and it’s usually better than the summer. For the most part, that was the case for us. It was a great trip, and we look forward to visiting the ocean again soon.