Pacific Highway ehk pisut geograafiat

 

Enne kui reisijuttudeks läheb, las ma näitan kõigepealt, kus me käisime. Kaardid ja fotod laenasin veebist. Punane X tähistab me kodukohta. Sealt lõikasime risti üle Kaskaadide mäeaheliku, maalilisse sadamalinna nimega Newport. Esimene road tripi nädal kulus aega- ja nautimisi alla, lõuna poole tüürides, kuni jõudsime Oregoni/California piirile. Brookingsis pöörasime otse ringi, et tuldud teed tagasi sõita. Et kas täpselt sama marsruuti kaks korda sõites igav ei hakanud, küsite. Noh… kuidas seda nüüd öeldagi… vaadake neid maanteepilte. Kas teil hakkaks igav? Pealegi, nagu iga matkaja teab, rada näeb täiesti teistsugune välja, kui tuldud teele vastassuunas kõndida. Ühesõnaga, kolme osariiki läbiv Pacific Highway on imeline. Me oleme California-osa kah läbi sõitnud, mõned jupid lausa paaril korral, ja Oregonis Newportist põhja pool käinud. Paraku Washingtoni osariigi kallast mõõtvate miilideni pole veel jõudnud. Peab plaani võtma.

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"The Pacific Highway is 1,687 miles long and stretches from the Mexican border to the Canadian border and in 1924, was the longest continuous stretch of paved road in the world. Good roads advocate and road-building pioneer Sam Hill was perhaps the main motivating force behind building of the highway as a "National auto trail" along the West coast of the United States.

101 goes by many names. Many vacationers to California know her as the Pacific Highway. Southern California residents add a little more status, referring to her as “The 101”. Where she winds through the some of the world’s largest and oldest trees, in Northern California, she goes by the pseudonym Redwood Highway. 70’s folk rockers America made her famous when they sung of the free wind blowin’ through her hair via the stretch known as Ventura Highway. She’s El Camino Real in the south and the Olympic Highway as she wraps around the Olympic National Park in Washington State. Countless hitchhikers have known her simply as “home”.

"101 passes through two National Parks—Olympic and Redwood, both of which are temperate rainforests—through all three western states, generally hugging the coastline all the way down as it meanders through American legends like San Francisco and Hollywood, as well as every last mile of Oregon’s North Coast. Short of the now defunct, fabled Route 66, it’s without a doubt America’s best known road and perhaps the single most gorgeous stretch of mostly two lanes your wheels can roll across."

September 27/2021                                                                        Images: Internet

“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” ― Robert Louis Stevenson