Day five started in Astoria, we made one last stop to see Astoria Column. I thought it would be like an older water tower. It was much cooler. As the t-shirt indicates, it’s almost as tall as the Statue of Liberty. It’s on top of Coxcomb Hill and the views are amazing. We saw a very scary looking bridge that crossed the river to Stevens State Park.
Our next stop was the Peter Iredale shipwreck in Stevens State Park. God love Lily – she drove over the scary bridge. I think she didn’t realize how scary it would be. Part of the problem in that you take a hairpin turn on the elevating ramp to get to it. But we survived. We did get the beach to ourselves. It was really nice.
The on to Long Beach where Lily found a vintage shop that she loved. She got a great haul. Turns out art in Portland is pretty expensive. But the art at the secondhand store in a rural coastal town, is less expensive. We had a nice lunch and then I took a walk on the beach. I suspect it’ll be my last walk on the ocean for a hot minute, so I soaked it in.
Then onto Seattle, which was much farther than we wanted it to be. But we checked in, We checked out some of the basics (Ferris Wheel, gum wall and Pike’s Place) on the way to find a restaurant open past 9pm. We found one. And we found ourselves an Irish pub for a pint or two.
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