ON THE ROAD AGAIN!

Left Sara’s about 10:30 a.m. mistakenly trusted the GPS to lead us out of town. Of course, it led us to a dead end road. We could see our highway below us, but we had no access. Off we went without the GPS along the bus route and found the right road. We ascended from the low lying fog up into the clear mountain air. Had beautiful driving weather. The view coming into Osoyoos from the mountain top was astounding and the ride down the hill with at least five switchbacks was breath taking. Little did we know at the time it would be the first of many.

Spent the night in Osoyoos, a pretty resort town on a lake extending several miles into the US. Had no problems crossing the border at all the next morning. Followed the Okanagan River through Washington and I learned that Olympia is the capital, not Seattle as I had thought. The Okanogan joins the Columbia River at Chelan and we started following the Columbia right to the coast to the Town of Aberdeen where we spent the night. The Columbia River is very wide with dams/power stations every few miles. At Aberdeen we crossed over on a bridge high enough for shipping passage underneath and entered Oregon. Had our first view of the ocean. It was a very grey day but we could still see Mt. St. Helen’s in the distance.

Bridge across Columbia River

Mt St. Helen's from the mouth of Columbia River