Year 4, Day 2

Day 2!!! We started the morning in Roseburg. Nothing much here but a good stopping point along the river to rest for the night. An early start took us over the coastal mountains to the pacific. A large heard of elk greeted us in Roosevelt. Green pastures, trickling water, ocean smell, and bull elk. What a great way to start a morning. Continuing on to Florence, OR we made our first "tourist trap" stop at the sea lion caves. A speedy fast elevator took us down 215 feet to the worlds largest sea cave. The sea lions were not inside today since it was so beautiful, cant blame them, but the cave was cool anyway. The elevator didnt count by 1, 2, 3 etc it counted by 10, 20, 30. Wow that was quite the ride! Today was the first day we took the interstate. Darn! But we had to get to Portland. Being Labor day weekend the traffic was miserable. We should have taken that as a clue....traveling up a long windy road alongside the river we arrived at a beautiful dome shaped building, the Crown Pointe Vista House. Really cool place apparently built in 1917 as a "stop along the road to rest". Its made of marble and rock and has a beautiful view of the Columbia and Washington across the way. A good stop but too many people. The next stop should have been Multnomah falls...but AHHHH the people. It took 30 minutes to just pass the parking lot. So we took pictures from the road. Oh well, cant beat them all. So now we have arrived at Lisas house. Shes made a great dinner and some homeade ice cream for later. A nice bed to sleep in should start us off on a good foot tomorrow.