I didn’t think it was going to happen.  I really didn’t.  And then *poof* the sun made a showing today!

Honestly, weather is one of my favorite things about driving through the Chinook Tunnel (roughly WA milepost 3 on Hwy 101).  That’s the tunnel that goes beneath Fort Columbia State Park and somehow separates two worlds.   It is absolutely eerie, in a very cool way, how the weather can be bright and sunny on one side and overcast on the other.  It doesn’t seem to matter whether you’re driving toward Ilwaco or Astoria.  It works both ways, making it kind of like unwrapping a little weather present on each drive through.

I like little surprises like those.  Don’t you?

I forgot to snap a picture of the tunnel today, darnit.  So, instead, let me share a few facts I found on bridgehunter.com:  Built 1932, the Chinook Tunnel is 799.9 feet long and carries a traffic of approximately 4,440 cars daily.  Don’t you feel smarter now?

I am totally jamming on “Street View” in Google maps: