So we say goodbye to Yosemite and begin our journey towards Seattle, the northern most point of our West Coast USA tour... sorry fans in Canada, our tour can not visit ya'all this time around.
After leaving Yosemite we headed out towards the west coast through Sacramento. We ended up a little place called Fort Bragg. Our very friendly (and chatty) Travelodge owner went into great detail about how it was famous for it's Skunk Train, as well as it's "Glass Beach"... which sounds a lot better than a steam train that used to be run on green wood, so it stank all the time, and a rubbish tip that was right on the beach, which was eventually cleaned up, but the broken glass bottles were smoothed by the waves and left pretty rocks for the children to collect. The restaurant that he recommended was closed for a function, and the best sunset in the country looked like most other sunsets we had seen... Despite howls of protest from the children, we headed off far too early to fully appreciate the splendour of those two attractions.
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| The Redwoods are big enough to drive through! |
The next day we drove along the stunning coastline and through the magnificent Redwood National Park. Some of the trees here are thousands of years old and all are huge. We stopped at Florence, a pretty little place, which gave us a real taste of fishing village/holiday town atmosphere. We had our first rain of the trip as we woke in Florence, but we quickly moved away from the rain as we headed inland towards Portland. Just east of Portland is the Columbia River Gorge. The highway runs along the river, but there is also the scenic by-way that we took where the waterfalls run year round.
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| Multnomah Falls. |
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