Back to Oregon!

We slept in for a bit this morning, but got going fairly early for our trip back to Auntie Violet parked in Daughter Dawn's driveway in Hubbard, Oregon. It was another gorgeous day -- so pretty when we came down the hill to the Vantage Bridge over the mighty Columbia River.

We were a bit surprised to see how many more wind turbines there now are in the hills along the river --

We stopped at the Ryegrass Rest Area on I-90, where you can see Mount Ranier, known to the Native Americans as the "God Mountain."
 

And later down the river, we began to get glimpses of Mount Hood --

We cut off and took Highway 82 down to Yakima, then 97 to Goldendale and Maryhill, just to see some different scenery. We then drove Highway 14 along the Columbia on the Washington side. The basalt bluffs along this route are every bit as spectacular as the ones in the southwest -- they just don't have the bright red colors...

This would not have been a route for Auntie Violet. This tunnel is only a bit over twelve feet high...
 

 

We made a quick stop in Canby for hamburgers at Burgerville, then were finally home again. No one was home when we arrived -- they were busy painting over at the new house!