Portland Oregon , very cool city we had a gr8 time there , went to see Chinese garden , nice restaurants, city is very pet friendly we took our husky in to public transport across the town and it was very normal to locals,
From Portland we headed to Astoria , over the Columbia river , beautiful drive along the coast and deep forests
9 pm arrived at small town Forks , had our evening coffee and drove true Olympic national park to port Angeles ,
We gonna take charter boat to salmon fishing in a few min

By the way this part of the park road you are lucky if u won't hit a dear at night they are all over.