The Dam access road!

Since it appears that we are starting this blog entry with signs, here is another one.

 

It may look unfriendly to some of us ‘roadsters’, but it is actually just a sign on a McDonald’s drive-through.

This way?  Or that way? (Isn’t that two ways?)

And, Hailey just informed me that she did not get a mention in the last blog post … so,

After all that, where did we go?  It was decided to leave the Oregon coast at Seaside, and cruise down Highway 26 through Portland, before crossing the Columbia river into Washington state.  The Portland area provided the first of many tunnels, and we managed to avoid most of the traffic congestion – until we headed north on I-205 across the river.

I guess someone was looking at the scenery or taking photos of the river as it resulted in a fairly serious rear-end collison just on the Washington side of the line.

Rest assured, that I only take photos and look at the scenery when Hailey is driving.  You can see her reaching for the brake pedal here.

Something tells me that this is not the jeep from the Bayfield Bunch before Al washed it!  Anyone got a spell checker for spelling durt?

Once we were clear of the wreck on the bridge, we followed #14 east along the north bank of the Columbia river.  And there were more tunnels – lots of ‘em!

If you were paying attention to the first dam sign photos, you might now be guessing that we stopped for the night near the Bonneville dam and locks.  You would be correct.

Well, this blog posting is long enough!

Life's a Beach!

Well, it is – if you are on the north Oregon coast!

Mostly just pics this time.

Nehalem Bay state park sunrise.

Arcadia Beach

There was a very low tide, so lots of sea life was exposed.

Decided to intervene in nature here. These gulls had this crab upside down on the beach, and were trying to dismember it. Now these gulls were far from starving, looked like bored sport to me. Anyway, I flipped the little guy over and escorted him back to a tidal pool where he made good his escape – till next time.

Thanks a lot Blogger, for ruining this post! I do just about all my blogging using Live Writer, which I find is far easier to use than the blogger editor. I had a video in this post and it worked just fine. That is until I opened the post in Blogger to add the brief addition on the pot-holes. Blogger then totally screwed up the layout and lost the video and would not re-load it, and changed a bunch of font sizes to boot. Thanks a lot!!! It also screwed things up badly enough that even Live Writer could not understand it.

Instead, HERE is a direct link to the video on Youtube!

I see that Blogger arbitrarily removed the title to the post as well!