North Bend & the Empire Lakes (Coos Bay) Revisited
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It had been a while since I had made a trip to the coast, and I was in need of a quick getaway-slash-escape from the Valley. Just a day trip, or perhaps an over-nighter. No big whoop. I settled on a return to North Bend and Coos Bay's Empire Lakes, just across the line separating the two cities. I made a trip to Oregon's Bay Area in June to cover a Special Olympics Oregon track meet. That trip would be a template for this one, except I now had a familiarity with the area. I do need to apologize that I am writing another post about visiting Coos Bay/North Bend. With a significant backlog of trips about which to write, and so few actually written up and posted to this very new blog, why a repeat? Because it is still very fresh in my mind, and every trip to the Oregon Coast offers something different. Link Lane operates the route between Eugene and Florence, offering three round trips daily. I caught the morning run at 7:25 from the Eugene Amtrak Station to the coast. For five buc...