The weather forecast, a fickle and changeable thing in the Pacific Northwest, says it’ll be nice weather all the way through the July 4th weekend. And indeed, it isn’t actually raining when we get up, and we can pack up the tent sort of dry-ish. Breakfast of camp scrambled eggs and bread, whilst watching hummingbirds and swallows buzzing around – neat!
Within a couple of miles of leaving the campsite we passed a couple walking a goat – but we didn’t feel brave enough to take a photo. It was a picturesque route around Willapa Bay, mostly empty roads, occasionally spoiled by campervans and RVs – moving on to get camped for 4th July weekend we supposed. Lots of huge logging trucks on the road but luckily they were all driving towards us.
We were approaching Astoria when we saw the bridge. We knew it was long, but it seems to have been built piecemeal, several different sections – and 6km of it, with hardly any shoulder for bicycles. Luckily for us some roadworks on the bridge meant one-way traffic. The photo following gives no indication of the gradient of the final sections, since we were so busy pedalling uphill we couldn’t take any more photos. This one was taken from the top of the toppiest part. You can just see the rest of the bridge stretching out into the distance behind a furiously pedalling Diane.
After our heart rates dropped back into the low hundreds, we proceeded to the Riverside Motel, and then thereafter to the Fort George microbrewery and restaurant, where we had a fine time.
They serve their beer in Mason jars, for some reason, but it’s mighty fine all the same.
We’re maintaining a list of all the microbrews we’ve had since arriving in the New World, and it’s getting quite long now. My research shows that IPA is the most popular brew, and that cloudy beers are in, as we can see above. It doesn’t stop them from being absolutely delicious, albeit very strong; nothing below 5.2ABV! So far, we haven’t had a single pint of what you might think of as US beer: no Coors, no Bud, no nothing. Microbreweries are everywhere, and they rule. Awesome! Actually, we need to pronounce it “r-sum” to sound convincing :’)
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