If you’re uneasy driving on high bridges like the Astoria-Meglar Bridge over the Columbia River, do it in the fog. Then you can’t see how high you are. Of course, it’s harder to see ahead, but that’s a small price, isn’t it?
View from the Washington side. The high part is in the fog.
An early experience (age 2.5?) leaving from New Orleans across (I surmise) the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, put the fear in me. Add to that a terror of heights (my knees started shaking after scaling a 9' cliff when hiking the Olympic Peninsula in my youth) and I've had to give up on a couple of attempts. Recently, as in five years ago, I chickened out on the backroad to Burgdorf, Idaho, a series of swtchbacks up an almost vertical mtn with barely enough width for a vehicle. I made it in my youth (age 18) by stareing at the cliff-face. Check it out sometime. Take the road along the Salmon River east from Riggins and turn right at French Creek. The river road is beautiful, but hotter'n Hades in the summer. Maybe nice on your way down from Vancouver.
ReplyDeleteOne time I was thinking of taking my Winnebago up that road. There was an old bus parked at the beginning just off the Salmon River Road, glad I didn't try it. Turn a rounds would have been tough...
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