Thanks Mercator and Seattle Forest.

Expansive views like in Mercator's pic are certainly inspiring. I want to get on my bike.

I had a look at Winthrop to up past Ross Lake via Route 20 on Brian Foits street view player, and that was pretty dramatic too. Here is the shortened link for the virtual ride.
https://tinyurl.com/winthrop2rosslake

My morning ride is nothing like as dramatic. Here is half of it on Brian's player.
https://tinyurl.com/timtakshalfmorningride

In the unlikely event that anyone wants to see my whole morning route, here is the gpx file which can be uploaded to Brian's player. http://nihonbunka.com/temp/201805031...55028-data.gpx

The gpx was created by creating directions on google maps, and then pasting the URL to GPS Visualizer: Convert GPS files to plain text or GPX as instructed here
http://www.bedsforcyclists.co.uk/art...our-phone/(the site is an interesting UK cyclo-tourism portal with cheap places to stay, no affiliation)