If A-Traveling I Would Go

by Mewsette

I used to want to see all the cool, green, mossy, heathery, castley places in Europe I read about - Ireland, Scotland, places like that. But I'm purrty old now, and I'd rather stay in America. We don't have castles, but we've got the rest.

I want to see the ocean, too, but I don't want it all bright hot and tropical. Bright sun hurts my eyes. I want a silvery-brown wild and craggy place with windy waves crashing in a gray-white sea, and crabs running sideways in the rocks at dusk. I want to chase the crabs. I want to sit on a high windy rock and see the edge of the world, with just a few sunrays to keep me warm. I don't care for purrty, packaged places; I like wild places.

So where would I travel to for what I want to see? Coos Bay, Oregon, that's where. Right on the wild part of the Pacific coast. I saw my mom's pictures of it from when she was there forever ago. It's purrfect. It's all heavy forest around the bay, and I love the forest, too. Some of the trees are so huge, and it's very near the Redwood forests. I want to see the Redwoods, too. I know they're in Cali-furnia, but I'd pretend I was still in Oregon. Don't want to go to Cali-furnia because HollyWoody is in there somewhere, and I don't need to see That.

A travel-trip to Coos Bay would be purrfect to take when it's getting too hot where I live, because it's still cool there most of the time. I want to go there on a train with the wheels going clickety-click all night, not in a car, and not in a plane! And just think of all those crabs and fish to eat! Yup, that's where I would travel to, if a-traveling I would go.