I have looked forward to walking across it for so long!
I looked at at that bridge during my zero day in Cascade Locks and psyched myself up.
So on Monday morning, after a big town breakfast, I walked up to the bridge with Dreamer, Stretch, and Brandon.
I did not love walking across the bridge.
There is no sidewalk, you walk essentially on the road with the cars. It is a metal bridge; you look down through the grid to the water. And the wind blows straight up from the water. It blew my hat and sunglasses off, which fortunately did not fall through the grids to the water. But then I was paranoid that I would drop something- my phone, my poles, my sunglasses- and held everything in a death grip.
The bridge has a lot of flex and it bounced and vibrated as the cars drove past.
The bridge was much scarier than I had anticipated.
But cross it, I did and thus began to hike the last state. Washington, here I come!