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Day 266: Golden Spike Part 4

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

“After the ceremony, Jupiter continued in service for the Central Pacific. In the 1870s, the railroad decided to end their practice of naming their engines, and thus, the Jupiter name was dropped and the engine was simply known as C.P. #60. The locomotive also received many new upgrades such as a new boiler, cowcatcher, domes, […]

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Day 265: Golden Spike Part 3

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

The first view upon coming out of the Visitor Center! There are a lot of interpretive signs, and of course Wikipedia always has info! The Last Spike! Coast to Coast Jubilation!  We don’t get that nearly enough anymore… Original Rail. *** It all looks pretty close to the original event, but without so many people. […]

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Day 264: Golden Spike Part 2

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

A much more important place in our History than this small outpost in a field would indicate. ~Curtis in Utah!  {!-{>

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Day 263: Golden Spike Part 1

Thursday, October 1, 2015

Day dawned too early in Wells…actually, the Dawn was OK, it was just the COLD that left me in my bed!  But once I got out I had a mystery.  What the heck was this? !!!!! After pondering a bit I decided to head out into the wilds again.  20 miles down the Interstate and hang […]

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Day 262

Thursday, October 1, 2015

In planning this day had bothered me a bit because the road I wanted to take didn’t have gas pumps for 213 miles…not bad in a car, but a little beyond the normal range of my GoldWing.  I decided I could do it if I kept it at 55mph.  My mileage goes way up at […]

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Day 261

Thursday, October 1, 2015

On the next day…it rained.  That was the good part. Because as I near Crater Lake National Park… …it started to snow.  And stick.  And I was still 1,000 feet below the rim. I stopped at the entrance at the Gift Shop. Even if I had gone on you could not see Crater Lake through […]

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Day 260

Thursday, October 1, 2015

(To see the previous day of the trip, scroll down to page 257, below.) This is my second day on the Oregon Coast.  It was dull and dreary, but other than a few sprinkles it did not rain on me. The Motel 6 I stayed at in Newport is below a very large bridge. From […]

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Day 259: the second day of my Crater Lake Adventure…part 2

Monday, September 21, 2015

I had lunch in Yakima, WA, then I headed into the hills!  And I found a big one! Mount Rainer.  And the associated National Park, of course. A little of the Fall foliage is starting to appear here. Playing Peak-a-Boo… …with a dormant (not extinct) volcano!   There are several tunnels in Mount Rainer NP… […]

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Day 258: the second day of my Crater Lake Adventure…part 1

Monday, September 21, 2015

Completely out of order… I stayed in Lewiston, ID, after crossing Lolo Pass on the first day of my trip.  This was looking back at the Sunrise over Lewiston, ID and Clarkson, WA, the next morning. There are windmills EVERYWHERE in the West now.  Since they are not commercially viable without a Federal Subsidy, there […]

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Day 257

Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Off down the road to Oregon and I find someone else has been here first…do-ee-do-ee… A nice little ship in front of a restaurant. Hoards  of storks sailing by! The last little bit of Washington… …taken from this little park. Entering Oregon.  Whhere the pterodactyls still fly! The Rock at Cannon Beach You’d think this […]

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