Pete and I got a last minute deal to go to Portland and Seattle for a long weekend. Neither of us had been to that part of the country before so it was all new to both of us!! The first thing we saw that was so interesting to us was all the logs! There were a ton of trucks all over the highway packed full of logs. On the way to Astoria we saw this log shipping area that was really neat.
Our first stop was Astoria, OR. For those of you who don't know it was where The Goonies was filmed! We started off by stopping at the Astoria Column. It is a big tower that you can climb 164 steps to the top and have a nice view of the city.
View from the column.
Us on top of the column with Astoria in the background.
The County jail as seen in Goonies.
The above picture is from Cannon Beach. It is about 30 minutes south of Astoria. This was also the area where the end of Goonies was filmed.
We had gotten to Cannon Beach just before dark. It got dark much earlier than we expected but I was able to get a few pictures.
In Portland we stayed with some friends from India (Dave and Vicki). It just happen that Andrea - another girl from India - was visiting as well.
Vicki, Dave, Pete, and I.
After we left Portland we headed north east to Mt Rainier National Park. It was so beautiful.
This was a cool area in the park where the river use to flow through and now it is just a stream.
We got to walk out onto the old river bed.