Now we were going to backtrack a bit to Tillamook, which we had passed through the day before. We stopped at this viewpoint on Neahkahnie Mountain ('home of the supreme being'), one of the highest points on the Oregon Coast.
A sign there points out that the rock structures along this section of road were built between 1939 and 1941... and were symbolic of an era when the elements for design were not only in harmony with nature but provided by nature in the form of local stone and timbers. I like that better than today's method of just blasting through and paving over anything in our way (the Coquihalla Highway in BC comes to mind).
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