Up early yesterday and down to the breakfast room at the motel. Pretty darn nice, waffles, eggs, sausages as well as toast, cereal fruit etc. I struggled with the waffle maker but a nice young lady gave me a hand! On the road by 7:30 am with 400 miles to go. Above on our way out of town.
Pretty day and up ahead you can see Mount Hood.
Those windmills are immense.
Coming down toward the Columbia River.
It's a freaking long way down and the temp was -3C when we started. Darn cold. Stayed that way until we got down to the Columbia but still not very warm.
Up ahead the bridge over the Columbia where we'll head onto I80 to the Dalles.
I just love these bridges....can't you tell by how many times I take pictures.
Up ahead I 80 towards Portland.
Looks like velvet...don't you think?
That railroad bridge opens for the big boats.
94 miles to Portland but we'll cut off before we get there.
Pretty day and I love the rock formations.
Up ahead ....Mount Hood.
One of the many dams on the Columbia.
Getting to an area where the coniferous trees start to appear.
That is one large river.
Historic highway 30 on the left and it appeared to be a bicycle and hiking trail now.
As we drove along we hit many areas where the fog was really thick.
Still fall here and the maple trees are in full foliage.
Trucks to the left of us, trucks to the right of us ....stuck in the middle again!
Really pretty and lots of fir trees. Felt like home.
We left I 80 at the 205 to miss Portland, south on I 5 and now we are on 38 heading west for Reedsport. I didn't take pictures on 205 and I 5 as I was trying to get the GPS to behave. In the end I discovered it had changed a setting to side roads only and didn't want us on interstates. Well ...what the heck. Got that sorted and now it's doing what it's supposed to. My Navmii program on my phone decided we couldn't get onto I 5 from the 205 and it wouldn't co-operate either...these GPS programs aren't all they are cracked up to be and in the end I used a paper map. Worked fine!
Big tunnel on 38 somewhere around Drain or Elkton.
Hmmm.....maybe Elkton?
Just plain pretty along the Umpqua River.
The trees were holding their arms over us.
Small town....U.S.A.
On the 101 heading for Coos Bay and the dunes appear.
Big bridge over Haynes Inlet.
Another beautiful old bridge.
North Bend that runs right into Coos Bay.
Downtown Coos Bay.
Big old buildings.
We're here. Got to Manny and Connie's at around 3pm after making great time today. Only a couple of little glitches. Missed the right turn off the highway to their house but sorted that out and here we are. We'll stay here in their motorhome for a couple of days.
That's Mitzi and she is just fascinated with Eric. Maybe his jeans smell like our grand dogs Chloe (a.k.a. Schmoopie) and Maple. However she was just so excited to have company and entertained us all evening.
She looks like a little bat! We are missing Ramona whio was our all time favorite travel dog. She passed away in April.
We had a lovely evening with Connie and Manny. Downside is that Connie is really sick with a cold that she picked up on the plane on her way home from Hawaii. She'd gone over to visit her son and family and the same thing happened last year when she traveled there. Poor thing!
The other problem is that the squeak under the hood is back after spending $250 to change the serpentine belt and idler tensioner...dam! Must be something else.
It's cold here in Coos Bay and it went down to freezing last night.
Looks like you had a great driving day. Good weather!
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