I'd been looking forward to going to the Oregon coast ever since we moved here and we finally went Labor Day weekend. We left after work at 3:30 on Friday and traffic wasn't too bad leaving Seattle. It was slower through Tacoma and Olympia and we finally turned west toward the coast after 2 hours. Once we got off I-5, traffic wasn't nearly as bad and the road became more curvy. It was completely sunny when we left, but clouds and fog started to roll in when we were getting close to the coast.

We were pretty hungry after 4 hours of driving, so we stopped to eat at the Lost Roo, a local bar in Long Beach, WA. It was a family friendly place and had lots of fake Australian-themed decor. It was dark and lightly misting outside after dinner, but thankfully we only had about 20 more minutes to drive until we arrived at our hotel in Astoria, OR. We stayed at the Lamplighter Motel, not too far from the Astoria-Megler Bridge, the longest continuous truss bridge in North America. The bridge spans the Columbia River and is over 21,474 feet or 4 miles long. It was pretty cool driving across the bridge. The first stretch of the bridge leaving Washington was flat, but it went pretty high up when we got closer to Oregon. We were both pretty tired after driving about 190 miles from Seattle, so we just decided to call it a night.