| A touch of Washington, a touch of Oregon, a few other spots... | |
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"When you think about it, this is actually kind of gross."
The cows visit the infamous Market Theater Gum Wall in Post Alley at the Pike Street Market in Seattle. The walls are adorned with hundreds of thousands of pieces of previously used chewing gum. |
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"Gotta love an old machine."
Lunch and Snack admire a scale model of a working steam engine once used in the logging industry. They found the display at the Forks Timber Museum in Forks, Wash. The museum has an extensive display of artifacts and memoribilia from the heydays of timber felling on the West End of the Olympic Peninsula. |
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The bovines find themselves at a whimsical reconstruction of a vintage tavern tucked away in a corner of the Forks Timber Museum. Unforunately, there were no libations available from the mannequin bartender. |
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"But, is it art?"
The cows take a break from grazing on the front lawn of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo., to contemplate the concept of modern art while admiring a giant shuttlecock art installation. |
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The cows venture to the SPARK Museum of Electrical Invention in Bellingham, Wash. It's home of a wide variety of historic radios, phonographs, motors and electrical gadgets. |
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"Hey! It's Nipper!" At SPARK, Lunch and Snack encounter a larger-than-life sculpture of Nipper, the dog that became part of the trademark for the Victor Talking Machine Co., later RCA Victor. |
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Lunch and Snack visit the U.S. Naval Undersea Museum in Keyport, Wash., where they encountered the Trieste II, the first deep submergence vehicle built by the Navy. It was used to investigate sunken submarines and to retrieve a spy satellite before it was retired in 1980. |
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Lunch and Snack visit a Seattle icon, the Space Needle. |
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The view of downtown Seattle from the top of the Space Needle is always spectacular. |
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The "Sonic Bloom" sculpture at Seattle Center is an eye-poper, especially to cows who have never seen flowers that tall. It sits just outside the Pacific Science Center. |
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Repeating a ride the cows took in London years before, Lunch and Snack ride the Seattle Great Wheel on the Seattle waterfront. The view of the ferry at Coleman Dock far below was impressive. |
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"Wow! This is a really fun viewpoint!" The Seattle Great Wheel itself presented some interesting angles and perspectives. |
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As the bovines catch a ferry back across the Sound, the Seattle Great Wheel lights up the waterfront as the sun begins to set. |
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Lunch and Snack pay a visit to the Owen Rose Garden in Eugene, Ore., a splash of outrageous color along the Willamette River. The reds were particularly vibrant this time of year. |
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The cows take a tour of U.S. Highway 101 bridges along the Oregon Coast. This is the Siuslaw River Bridge in Florence. Built as a bascule bridge in 1936, it has a total length of 1,568 feet. |
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The Yaquina Bay Bridge in Newport, Ore., is one of the most recognizable on the Oregon Coast. Desgined by Conde McCullough and opened in 1936, the 3,223-foot-long structure was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
"And the Rogue Brewery sits almost directly beneath the south end of the bridge!" |
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Lunch and Snack take a break from the road at Lost Creek State Park near South Beach, Ore.
"Gosh Snack, it's good to get a little sand beneath our hooves." |
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Working up the Oregon Coast, the bovines find a playful sculpture of a whale at Depoe Bay. |
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Finishing off the bridge tour, the cows peer up at the Astoria-Megler Bridge, which spans the Columbia River between Astoria, Ore., and Pacific County, Wash. At 4.1 miles in length, it's the longest continuous truss bridge in North America.
Lunch and Snack had been to Astoria before, but they never tire of looking at such an impressive structure. |
