Pacific Coast Trip: Day 6, Astoria to Port Townsend, WA

Christmas Day is a pretty good day to travel in most regards, other than the fact that there isn't much open. Our goal today was to make it from Astoria, OR all the way around the Olympic Peninsula to Port Townsend, WA, which our longest day aside from working our way from Boise out to the coast.

The Astoria Bridge was festooned with snow, so we definitely got our white Christmas. As we headed north we definitely encountered our fair share of crappy conditions. We encountered a semi tractor-trailer that had lost traction on an icy hill blown through a T-intersection and dove right off into an icy marsh, luckily it wasn't deep, but I bet it was a bear getting him out.

The drive around the Olympic Peninsula was quite beautiful, we did have to fight some poor road conditions, but we did managed to get to Port Townsend in the daylight, and had a wonderful Christmas dinner at a restaurant called Sirens. If you are ever in Port Townsend and want a good dinner, that is the place to go.