I thought maybe an early drive and a caramel latte would be nice. I had picked out a route home so as to be able to grab some post offices parallel to I-5, but there were three not on that path, so I went looking for them. The hotel breakfast looked awful, but I went with my old standby, cereal with a banana with some OJ.
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- Gateway Postal – This was tricky one to get into the parking lot. Its early Sunday morning and the cars to the left must be private contract delivery folks for Amazon. (2/6/25)
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- Coburg – Is an actual city on its own, but the Post Office officially calls it Eugene. I think if you addressed it to Coburg and used the zip code of 97401-2970. (2/6/25)
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- River Road – This is the first stop on my return back to Fairview from Eugene after a crappy free hotel breakfast. (2/6/25)
After breakfast I was really ready to go, packed up all my stuff, threw it in the trunk and started back north.
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- Alvadore – My second post office of the day where it is located in a store. The one in Coburg had a separate entrance, but to get to the Post Office in Alvadore you have to go through the front door of this store. (2/6/25)
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- Cheshire – This town was a station on the Southern Pacific Railroad line platted in 1913 and originally named Hubert. Both “Hubert” and “Cheshire” were names chosen to honor James Hubert Cheshire, a favorite child of the people in the area. (2/6/25)
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- Junction City – Sorry I wasn’t around a couple of decades ago because from 2003 to 2005, a group of local farmers posed for nude calendars to raise money for the Junction City School District. Sales in over 63 countries raised more than $650,000. (2/6/25)
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- Harrisburg – As of the census of 2010, there were 3,567 people living in Harrisburg, Also according to the United States Census Bureau 0.1% or 36 people are of Pacific Islander descent. (2/6/25)
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- Halsey – In 2022, the most powerful handgun cartridge in the world, the .500 Bushwhacker, was developed and introduced by Halsey residents James Tow and Keith Tow. (2/6/25)
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- Shedd – A small town of a couple hundred souls that is home to the Boston Flour Mill, Oregon’s oldest continuously operating water-powered mill. (2/6/25)
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- Tangent – This was the site of a railway station on the Southern Pacific line south of Albany. Its name referred to a straight stretch of the line with no curves for more than 20 miles. (2/6/25)
