Central Oregon is one of the last great secrets, and still a bargain compared with inflated California and Seattle prices.

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Since this isolated county was created in 1882 in sagebrush-strewn central Oregon, its inhabitants have successfully picked 26 consecutive winners, from Grover Cleveland to Ronald Reagan.

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Some sophistos sashayed their way into trendy places like Portland's Pearl District, but many others looked to the charming smaller towns of the Willamette Valley and central Oregon.

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In fact, over the 1, 900-mile trek, it only lost signal on two occasions: a 20-mile stretch of the Central Oregon Highway and just as I was driving onto the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.

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General Description The Three Sisters Biosphere Reserve represents the essentially undisturbed landscape straddling the crest of the central Cascade Range (Oregon).

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