Opening our room door this morning was akin to the closing scene in 'The Birds' when everything is suddenly back to normal ....... the unrelenting rain had stopped! We learned that in addition to our two (very short) power outages several hundred houses in the Coos Bay area had suffered worse and were still without power. We left the Red Lion Hotel and set off northward on the 101. The scenery was majestic in places. We soon left the 101 and hit I5, driving a further 150 miles to Portland. Stopping-off for lunch at 'The Original Breakfast' we experienced a traditional diner trapped in a 1950's time-warp, complete with a cast of odd people! Driving through Portland is always interesting, made no less so by having to run the gauntlet of the occasional torrential shower and four or five lanes of nose-to-tail fast moving traffic! They say that Portland has a very walkable Downtown ..... well maybe so, but its surrounded by a maze of bridges and spiraling freeways, in the centre of which is the odd drawbridge that is raised periodically to halt the motorway traffic. But, once having negotiated Portland, we were soon at the Best Western in Vancouver (Washington). The latter is perfectly situated next to a mall, which houses good eateries and a 'Cinatopia' cinema. ...... a cinema offering plush leather gallery seating (with Ottomans!) and cinema sitting rooms, complete with bookcases, settees, and reading lights! Cinema goers can also order anything from draught beer to fish'n chips from their seats too!! And finally a musical reminder of today's journey and one that I've used before ..... Walk don't run, by the Ventures:
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