According to Wikipedia, Black Friday is "the Friday following Thanksgiving Day in the United States (the fourth Thursday of November). Since the early 2000s, it has been regarded as the beginning of the Christmas shopping season in the US, and most major retailers open very early and offer promotional sales."
For us non-Americans this basically means that most retail businesses offer ridiculous discounts / sales on a lot of their stock. From what I gathered, one could get good deals not only on the "normal" items like clothing and electronics, but this tradition even held true for large items such as household appliances and even cars!
Anyhow, while planning our trip, I wanted to visit Crater Lake National Park in Oregon, a stunning freshwater lake inside a volcano, which I was fortunate to visit in 1993. Doing this would however mean we will not have time to also drive down the Oregon coast, which is also spectacular. Furthermore, available info pointed towards heavy snowfall in the Park's region, which could result in the park being closed temporarily. So after consultation with Don, we decided to take the coastal route towards the Redwoods in northern California, but before doing so, also experience some of the Black Friday madness.
After saying goodbye to Don & Nancy and Don very kindly showing us the way out of the city, we stopped off at an outlet mall just outside Portland.
Where we blew the trip budget.
Black Friday: Been there, done that and got ALL the t-shirts . . .
We spend almost four hours shopping. (With "we" being a slight misnomer . . .). Anyhow, our route on this day took us from Portland, past the outlet malls, to a small coastal town called Florence:
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| Relative short drive after a marathon shopping excursion! |
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| This is where we are in the bigger scheme of things |
We did not take a lot of photos during the drive as it was a very overcast and dark day, but did manage to find a glimpse of the sun setting over the dramatic Oregon coast:
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| Very typical rocks just off a beach on the Oregon coast |
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| Its a wild coast |
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| So wild we even found crabs in our hotel room! |
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