Seattle, Washington to Albany, Oregon
I have loved road trips all my life. I especially love riding in the car with my beloved pusher as night gathers and stars take the sky or as the gray rain drives down. The car is an intimate space for talking and sharing music or a book on tape, and “heading down the highway” is a compelling if incorrect metaphor for our lives.
However, since arthritis has settled into my hip, knee, and shoulder joints, I can barely last an hour in the car before the pain catapults me out. Therefore, it was with some anxiety that I began the trip to Jonathan and Maddi’s wedding in Oregon. Jonathan is a deeply loved young man whom we rocked to sleep when he was two days old and whom we have walked with through all the days since. Maddi, his bride, is a lovely and courageous young woman whom we have known and loved for all the years that Jonathan has known and loved her. There was no way we were NOT going to that wedding!
Armed with a heating pad that plugs into our car lighter space, pillows to brace my knee against the car door, and ibuprofen–and tilting my car seat to the setting suggested by my beautiful and brilliant physical therapist–we headed out.
Jon and Maddi’s wedding was wonderful, but this review only tells the ADA part of the story. It includes reviews of a motel and restaurant in Castle Rock, WA; a motel, restaurant, and wedding venue in Albany, OR; and three bathrooms in between. The URLs for all reviewed sites are listed at the end of this review.
