OREGON NEWS
08/30/98
Post
Register – Idaho News
Category:
Feature Living
Published:
08/30/98
Page:
E1
Keywords:
Travel
Byline:
Clay Carpenter
This
is a whale of a trip, so it seems fitting that we're starting in Newport, home
of Keiko the whale. Keiko, star of the movie "Free Willy," is living
at the Oregon Coast Aquarium until he is flown to Iceland to live in an ocean
pen in September. Leaving Newport, the road wends inland through fields of
strawberries, blackberries and cranberries. If it's early June, stop in
Lebanon for some shortcake at the annual strawberry festival. Soon you're
driving through the Cascade Mountains and the picturesque farm country of the
Willamette Valley. When you emerge from the forest, the landscape turns to
high desert, which it remains, on into Idaho.
HIGHWAY
HIGHLIGHT: Careful, or you just might miss this one. It's possibly the
smallest town on the route, Millican, with two residents - a man and his wife
- and zero telephones. Later in the trip, you'll pass through Chicago, which
has 3.86 million times the population of Millican.
QUOTE:
"It's helped us in advertising." - Milt Preisz, longtime owner of
Moby Dick's restaurant in Newport, temporary home of Keiko the whale, who has