Astoria pages

First night on the road, and surprisingly, I got good sleep, and awoke to a sparkly morning. Surf still booming, but the sky cloudless and the marine layer lying almost out of sight...

Out our northern porch window this morning, the Coaster that's been waiting rode at anchor. The fog looked to be lifting; small bits of blue scudded by overhead, and occasional bursts of sunlight spotlighted random roofs, trees, boats...

Another one of Rose River Inn's good breakfasts, and some maintenance on this traveling system – the relationship between image sizes and copy wasn't right, and I wanted more freedom from the tyranny of a fixed width browser (the panorama from the Astoria Tower was too pinched!) – before we headed out west to find Lewis and Clark's winter camp at Fort Clatsop National Historic Park ...

I happened to be up briefly just at sunrise, and was rewarded by the buttery glow emanating from the eastern horizon. And back to bed and the best sleep of the trip so far...

Yummy breakfast of Scorcher asiago bread, butter, and cranberry jams from Misty Meadows in Bandon. Cloudy view up river, but neither windy nor cold. Quiet day ahead; might not hear much from us.