Travis Dumas and Tory Sansonetti were trying to make it to downtown Portland by closing time Friday.
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The young Utah couple, having met online about three months ago, decided on eloping to Oregon. They had a tiny window to drive to the Multnomah County Courthouse and back to the Salt Lake City area, where Sansonetti had planned to return to work Monday.
But a 96-car oil train near the Columbia River Gorge town of Mosier derailed their plans - at least for a weekend.
Dumas and Sansonetti left the Salt Lake City area on Thursday and slept that night in her Nissan Versa at a rest stop outside Boise. And it was about noon Friday by the time they broke for gas and a shower east of The Dalles.
When they got back on the road, Interstate 84 near The Dalles was gridlocked. The GPS that previously told them they’d be in Portland by 4:25 p.m. was trumped by the clock that read 4:57 p.m. as they crossed into rural Washington.
“And I turned to him and I said, ‘We’re not going to be able to pick up our license,” said Sansonetti, 29.
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