Sunday Edition: A 24-Hour Getaway to the Oregon Coast

Tapping into joy on the other side of discomfort.

The Sunday Edition is Tuesday’s little sister—off-the-cuff updates I’d bring up over a coffee catch-up with a friend.

The wind and rain began to pick up Saturday afternoon as my boyfriend and I hit the trail for a hike along a stretch of Ecola State Forest that abuts the Oregon coast. We had carefully planned and dressed for the weather (selecting a hike that parallels a road, should the storm get worse), but it was already dramatic enough that a family admiring it from their car snapped photos of us as we headed into the trees, only slightly shielded from the elements.

It may sound nuts—we certainly looked nuts—but there is truly nothing I love more than being immersed in nature, even (especially?) when it’s so wild, and the hike felt like a balm after a packed week. Hours later, we returned to our car and drove to our hotel, stopping to pick up a feast of fish and chips that we ate in front of a fireplace, enjoying the food and warmth all the more from our adventure. The next morning, we went for an equally rainy beach walk (again, after checking the tides!) that left me feeling humbled and in awe at nature, doing her thing. It was a poignant reminder that joy and beauty often exists on the other side of discomfort. Read on for photos from my week, three outfits I loved, and a few recent dinner recs: