On cloudy, rainless day...walking the Oregon beach with friends and their delighted dogs. Surf breaks about two hundred yards offshore (it's low tide at the moment) with wave crests of ten to fifteen in height...relatively calm after an earlier storm.

Looking southwest at surf breaks

Looking north to the Hecta and Yachts highlands

Looking due west; next stop would be Sapporo, Japan, approximately 4,445 miles with absolutely nothing in-between the two cities except the Pacific Ocean.