"Ocian in view! Oh! the joy!" These are the exact words from William Clark's journal. These words kept ringing in my ears as we biked this last day of the Lewis and Clark Trail. We left David’s house with sandwiches, fruits, vegetables, granola bars to get us through today, thanks to Janet. It was a real blessing along the way. We crossed back over to the Oregon side on the Longview Bridge…an experience in itself…and biked into some pretty good hills on the way to Astoria. We managed those hills and 56 of the miles in good time…time enough to make most of the arrangements for our return trip. We will be taking Amtrak home on Thursday. We have an appointment in the morning tomorrow to have our bikes and trailers boxed and shipped home via DHL. Since the train originates in Portland, we also made arrangements for a bus to Portland from Astoria on Thursday morning in time to catch the train. The plans are falling together for our return. After making those arrangements, we felt the trip would not be complete if we didn’t actually experience the Pacific Ocean (Astoria is still on the Columbia River side). We biked 10 more miles to Fort Stevens State Park directly on the Pacific. Upon arrival, we quickly set up the tent, emptied out our trailers and pulled them down to the beach where we each took pictures of the other standing in the waves of the Pacific. What a thrill! The Lewis and Clark Trail and a 3-year goal has been completed!
-clarkwheel
Student question: When Lewis and Clark saw the ocean, they saw something that Sacagawea begged to go see as well. What was this sight the Sacagawea wanted to see so badly?
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