We had to combine two days into one post because we arrived late in Portland yesterday and had to find a car wash (we are, after all, at an Alfa convention and the car had to look its best). Three thousand miles of bug splat and road goo just had to be removed.
We left Lewiston, Idaho, still following the trail of Lewis and Clark.
Encountering the rolling hills and wheat fields of eastern Washington....
Fields of Al(fal)fa
We followed the Columbia River to Portland on the Washington side. A snow-capped Mt. Hood came into view.
This morning at 8:00 am, the Alfas gathered for an Oregon coast tour that took us as far as Astoria, Oregon, and Cape Disappointment (the end of the trail for Lewis and Clark) just north of the border in Washington.
A 1960 Giulietta spider sandwich at one of the rest stops on the tour.
The Columbia River meets the Pacific Ocean as seen from the Astoria Column. The bas-relief murals on the column depict the earliest moments in Northwest history. We ascended the 164-step spiral staircase to take in the view.
