We were visiting our elder offspring, who is going into their senior year at Reed. Melody's house was about for minutes away from their house. In addition to just family stuff, we visited Frog Lake in the Mt Hood Wilderness and Ecola state park on the coast. We also hiked around the Oaks Bottom Nature preserve, which is walking distance from Melody's house, and saw lots of ducks and herons, a nutria, and a family of otters. We had a great time.