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Seaside, OR (Aug 6, 2010) So we made it. It was somewhat anticlimactic after all these months of traveling. There was no banner, no band, no one to pat us on the back and exclaim about how amazing it was that we had come from Virginia to Oregon and all we have seen and done. Just Ed and I crossing into Oregon from Washington state and a sign that said "Welcome to Oregon". But it was enough. In fact it felt right, like coming home. It was an overcast, drizzly day as we drove into Seaside and got ourselves set up at the campground. The drizzle stopped and we decided we NEEDED to see the Pacific Ocean today so we bundled up and started out. By the time we got there (about a mile and a half) blue sky was breaking through and the sun was peeking out which we took as a gift of God, just for us. We walked on the beach for awhile and I wished I had not dressed so warmly! A wonderful welcome home! So...WE MADE IT!!!
As if it were there just to add an emphatic punctuation to our own cross-country journey we snapped a picture of the Lewis & Clark statue in Seaside with the appropriate inscription, "End of the Trail". By the grace of God and in his providential plan this is not the End, this is the Beginning!