left portland early this AM to the land of the rising sun. There it is for you.
and, that's a rather scary shot of me pumping gas for the first time in 10 months! It's illegal to pump your own in Oregon.

Day Numero Uno

Number of hours driven: 12.5
States crossed: 3

Breath-taking Sight #1
6 A.M. Colombia river still as ice with morning blues, pinks and greens dancing on its surface. I couldn't help but see the greatness of this river. In that light it was the Nile or Gangies. One of Oregon's many holy waters.

Breath taking sight #2
Idaho sneaker canyon. Flat, dry, vast cattle fields lulled me into thinking: 'this is it. this is what Idaho is going to look like from now on.' So, I was shocked and alarmed to see something unfamiliar on the horizon. It looked like a huge square building. but it wasn't. 'Was it a mesa?' i thought 'no. could it be? Oh my goodness! I said, as i gripped the wheel and and took in the full vista of it. it was a huge canyon! Its walls rose higher and higher in front of me and the land all around dropped down and over into its abyss like a massive water fall. As the road turned i wasn't entirely sure if it would keep going or just drop right off into the canyon.
Lesson taught by the road #1
Just when you get attached to something being one way it changes.

My route: Oregon to Utah to Nebraska to Chicago to Bloomington Indiana to Geary Indiana to Pennsylvania to New York to Portsmouth New Hampshire!