As you approach the Tillamook Cheese Factory on Hwy 101 the forest speads out into a broad valley, where every piece of property is a dairy farm. This is about 60 miles due west of Portland, Or.
This machine looked like a big octopus in a feeding frenzy.
Manzanita, Oregon
Columbia River on the left approaching Astoria Bridge
The Astoria Bridge is incredibily huge at 3.8 miles long across the mighty Columbia River. At this range you can't even see the semi trucks traveling over the state line from Oregon to Washington.
Empty freighter heading back out to sea.
Approaching the Lewis & Clark Bridge over the Columbia River heading into Longview, Wa.
Quite a steep grade for my big rig getting on top of the bridge.
View from the Lewis & Clark bridge of one of several big lumber mills around Logview.
Surrounded by lots of steel as we crest the top.
Your next house might just be down there in this huge lumber mill. Longview, Wa.
The 1st truck moving lumber to the mill. The second truck hauling wood chips & saw dust.
Marie & Armand picking blueberries on Mt Baker Washington.
Some rugged territory up here at 5000 ft. The tops of mountains in the clouds.
These are the little berries we're picking.
Just as we head back down, Mt Shuksan (9127 ft) pop's out of the clouds
There are a lot of these vertical columns of rock which are from the core of a volcano lava flow.
Near Heather Meadows, Mt Shuksan.
Mt Shuksan.
Ski fence in the town of Glacier
The fruit of our pickings, Blueberry pie!
Marie & Norma the gourmet cook.
Sucking up some of the scarce sunshine at Birch Bay Camground.
The Duch community of Lynden, Wash
More from Lynden, Wa
Birch Bay is very shallow , at low tide the sun warms the soil so when the tide comes back up the water is nice and warm for swimming in the Summer.
Entrance to 1000 Trails Cultus Lake Campground in Canada.
Some nice fall colors at the golf course next to our campground.
Some more great fall colors next to our campground.
Our campsite at a very nice 1000 Trails - Cultus Lake, British Columbia, Canada.
Boat launch at Cultus Lake, Canada.
Harrison Hot Springs, Canada
This big sandy beach is the location where the world famous sand sculptures existed just one week earlier at Harrison Hot Springs. Oh darn, maybe we can make it next time.
Bridal Vail Falls, BC
Briadal Vail Falls.
The mighty maple leaf, symbol on the Canadian flag.
Trans Canadian Hwy 1
Tran take you across the river and down to the bottom.
Fraser River, Canadian Pacific Railroad & Hwy 1 near Spuzzum, BC
Looking up at RR & Hwy 1 from a feeder stream to Fraser River.
A dense forest of maple trees.
This train was loaded with bright yellow sulphur.
We caught this view on the way back.
This is the same train we saw pass overhead.
Canadian National Railway hauling sulphur to Vancouver.
Steam clock in Old Town Vancouver playing one of it's tunes thru the 5 whistles on top.
Vancouver is a major shipping port on the West Coast.
Downtown Vancouver as seen from Stanly Park.
Float plane making a landing in the harbor. Back in the early '70's I flew on of these with a manager from the the phone company to Victoria about 50 miles away. We landed in Victoria harbor and floated right up to the dock of the Fairmont Empress Hotel where I spent two nights ,
These are replicas of the Thunderbird House Posts used by the native indians to hold up huge beam in their cedar houses. In Canada, native indians are called First Nations.
Some fall colors in Stanly Park, Vancouver.
We finally saw the destination of that sulphur train.
Loading sawdust on a freighter.
Candian Place & Vancouver Convention Center (or is that Centre?)
Rainbow over North Vancouver and Lion's Gate Bridge.
A double rainbow over Bill & Marie from Stanley Park.
Bill, Marie, Missy & Armand in the fall folage at Stanly Park.
At a distance, this tree root looked like a huge snake.
Ship that's done sailing. Near Antecortes, Wa
The view from our motorhome at 1000 Trails campsite in La Conner, Wa.
Sunrise at our campsite in La Conner.
Sunset at our campsite in La Conner.
Missy finding it very interesting to chase the little crabs hiding around the rocks.
Hwy 20 bridge over Deception Pass. The tides create a huge water flow thru this point. I think the speed can approach 20 mph.
Walking out on the bridge where a semi truck coming at me blew my Angels cap off my head & over the rail.....
Looking straight down, that little red & white speck is my baseball cap. Darn, it's gone forever!
A boat cranking it up going against the current.
Decption Pass with Mt Baker in the distant left background (just looks like a fluffy cloud).
Sunset at our campsite in La Conner. This was after a beautiful day in the San Juan Islands where the temp set a new record in Seatle for the day -- 72 deg!
