Northwest

There is a road that runs from Neah Bay to a trailhead parking lot for the Cape Flattery Trail. You can't see everything, though, and we didn't really have time for the 0.75-mile walk to Cape Flattery (a pity), but we did have time to miss a turn and accidentally take the road. This road is as close as a car can get to the exact northwestern corner of the United States (minus Alaska and Hawaii.) It's neither as far west nor as for north as you can go, but if you were going to draw a diagonal across the country, one of your endpoints would be here.

 

Two things to note:

 

1. See all that pretty sunlight piercing the fog? Hold onto that.

 

2. Sometimes I have "accidents" like this on purpose. This is how I drove across Lower Manhattan for the very first time in 1995, for instance, as my future ex-wife wasn't adventurous enough to let me do it intentionally. But here, we were burning daylight and tide, so this was not one of those intentional accidents. I'm glad I can mark this road off my map, but I really didn't mean to.

Done