Day Seven-First day in Oregon

Today we leave the godforsaken state of Washington and it's 50 mile an hour windy day. We go to Oregon. As you all know, this is the state we can't stop talking about and we are finally going to see it.

I saw fields of trees, actual fields of evergreens and other trees that look like a corn field only, you know, trees. I still don't know what that was about but it looked really cool.

We go winding down the interstate and get into the Columbia River Gorge, which we are coming in from the east side so it is dry but really pretty. Just as we come to the top of this hill about to descend we see a bridge below and a line-up of cars. In front of them is an accident. We showed up literally three minutes after an RV blew over from the wind and it is now laying on it's side taking up both lanes. We are on the bridge so there is no getting around it. I think we sat there for an hour to an hour and a half. The wind was so strong it was actually shaking our car and we felt like we were gonna tip over. Then our fear of being sitting ducks on a bridge now overloaded with the weight of an hour of traffic sitting on it gets to us, anyone remember the 35W bridge collapse? We did, but no fear, they cleaned it up and we were on our way again. A little excitement for the day.

We still have a long drive, we went along and finally saw green trees in their natural state. The gorge is so beautiful especially once you get to Hood River. We saw one of the waterfalls along the highway and kept moving. We were really surprised by how much we liked Portland. We just drove through it but it's also so green and mostly built up along their two rivers so it's just a beautiful setting. This is getting to be a more difficult decision as we drive.

We decided to drive to the coast to spend the night. Chad found a reasonable hotel in Seaside, the town, on the beach and as you can see from the pictures it had a beautiful view of the sunset. We went to Norma's for dinner and Chad had crab, my crab cakes were THE BEST! and I had enough left over for lunch the next day. Good deal!

Check out the Hood River brewery Full Sail Limited Edition Beer, it's hella good.

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