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Yesterday I spent the day with two friends from Australia who I met at a summer camp two years ago who are visiting Oregon right now. It was fun and kind of strange all at the same time, having been a long time since I've seen them. I get an interesting sense of the passage of time and how much people can change (and how much I can change) when I see someone who I haven't seen for quite a while.

I spent the day driving them around as kind of a tour guide, taking them to the coast -- Pacific City -- and to Multnomah Falls. It was a lot of driving, probably more than would have been ideal, but it was fun nonetheless. I appreciate the beautiful places in Oregon -- which is really much of the state -- much more now that I've been to several different places in the country. I love the large portions of (mostly) undisturbed natural beauty.