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Honeymoon day one. We left the lovely cool rain of Seattle to drive to Mount St Helen's, via delicious coffee and Rainier cherries in Olympia (home of Sleater Kinney and Sleater Kinney Road). Mount St Helen's was spectacular, the scale of the eruption and the devastation that resulted was just mind blowing. We walked the ridge to see the crater, then drove back out a little further to explore the Hummocks Trail, a beautiful short trail through a landscape only slightly older than us. A surreal and wonderful experience.
We are staying at a stupid hotel in Portland where Radisson are trying to be hipsters and only succeeding in being weird, but it was the best credit card points deal :) Worn out by the evening so ate close by.