Ashland:
The good brewery was Standing Rock. I'll give you a growler if you wish. Also, there seems to be some thespian activities there. I could probably dig up my membership # so you could get a discount...

Columbia River:
Do drive as far as Hood. At the Bonneville Dam complex you can go into a place & see (through glass), the salmon swimming upstream.

Oregon State campgrounds are cheap and incredibly clean.

The Shasta Dam tour was cheap as in free and very informative.


Verum audaces non gerunt indusia alba. - Ipsi dixit MCMLXXII