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Coasting in the steps of pioneers

At the end of 1805, in the vicious teeth of an early winter, Lewis and Clark, America’s foremost frontier explorers, stumbled exhausted on to this biting Pacific coast.

It marked the end of their epic trek from the mouth of the Mississippi River.

Two hundred years later, I get here much faster – flying across the Rocky Mountains, touching down, then renting a Buick to drive to the coast of Washington State from downtown Seattle.