My 45th in the 33rd...

One of my passions is motorcycling and I am determined to ride all 50 states of the USA, before I get too old to ride…So I find myself blogging today from Oregon, the 33rd state to join the US and now my 45th state to add to my “completed ride” list.

So I set about traveling from Portland to the northwest corner seeking the Coastal Highway. Stopping in the quaint town of Seaside some 90 miles away from my starting point, not only did I discover a wonderful small restaurant for lunch, but this happens to be the area where Lewis and Clark finally ended their expedition to the west coast. Being out of salt, a necessity for their travels back home, the team decided to extract the salt they needed from the sea! 4 bushels (28 gallons) much later (7 weeks) they had enough salt to begin the return trip home. Their round trip took 8000 miles and about a year and a half…I was able to complete about 250 miles in a single day yesterday!

The salt cairn show above is a monument erected to honor the brave crew of the Lewis and Clark expedition…looks to me like a modern day brick oven for cooking pizza…but a part of our history worth my journey west!

I will be adding my 46th state this same trip as I motor on over (or up) to ride in Washington state. Stay tuned for an update soon, because after completing these two, I head on to Alaska where great adventures await!

By the way…you only get too old to do something when you stop doing it because you think you are too old…