I was wrong.

Another foggy day here at the coast.

We had to drive for the second day in a ROW, to Portland. My car is broken again. I feel like my life is like that movie, Groundhog Day, I just keep doing the same thing over and over again and again. I'm not getting any better at it, but at least I know how it is all going to turn out.

Anyway, it is hot in Portland, like 109 degrees! Which is way too hot. Anything over 85 is too hot. But in Seaside, it is foggy. Chilly and foggy. Nice.

So I sit and watch the fog. You can't see the ocean or the town, heck you can't even seen the edge of my property. It is eerie and I really don't like it. One of the things that is amazing living here, is how Lewis and Clark ever found this place. I have never been all that fond of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Maybe because being from the Pacific Northwest it is our one claim to fame. We cut our teeth on this story. I have always kind of pooh-poohed it. Whatever! Enough already.

After living here for a month IN THE SUMMER I have really changed my tune. I am here to tell you that what they did was nothing short of a miracle. In the summer, with heat, electricity, automobiles, drive-thru Starbucks, grocery stores, and the fact that I am not at sea, I can barely hold on. For them to do all they did in the dead of winter, in canoes, and with all the obstacles they found, is extraordinary! I totally think they ROCK the world. Of course, they had some help with Sacagawea, the Indian guide and women extraordinaire and Seaman, the Newfoundland dog.

All that they accomplished is something that I will never understand. I can't even find things in my local Safeway store and there they were, sketching, exploring, discovering, mapping, surviving all in the dead of winter. Living down here even in the summer, it seems like the dead of winter. In the winter this is truly an amazing place. A scary, wild amazing place.

So, Lewis, Clark and Sacagawea you guys were something special. Thank you!