The Columbia River

We drove toward Washington State, and headed west and drove parallel to the Columbia River. A beautiful drive, a lot of wind. Hood River looks like a great place to visit on the next trip. Not sure how well these photos will look, they were taken out the window while driving. If they look bad when I can check them later, I'll take them off.

Start of Day 2

The weather is overcast. Yesterday was really hot, over 100 coming through Boise. Today should not be so hot, and much cooler as we approach the cost. We're hoping the rains will hold back. We are really looking forward to driving along the Columbia River, and looking at Multnomah falls.

Pendleton Oregon

The last 50 miles of this segment were the best for scenery. We didn't get any photos along the way, everyone was too tired to move stuff around. We did get some pictures of the hotel, and room. We probably could have saved a lot of money, and just played on the luggage cart for 5 days.

A Stop in Twin Falls

We stopped in Twin Falls to look at the bridge. How did they ever do that? We saw boats going up the Snake River, and a beautiful looking golf course down stream. A little smog in the air masked how great this really looked.

Start of Day 1

Today the plan was to leave at 8:00 am....but any time winding up four kids, and their parents.....and remembering all the stuff that it takes to go on a trip like this.....it takes a lot of work.....and there sure is a lot of stuff. We loaded up the rental van we picked up last night and we got on the road by 9:00 am...an hour behind target, but not unexpected. With the price of gas, we needed something that got better milage than our normal ride.

During the trip we have a GPS unit sending data as to where we are at. We're finding moderate succes with that.

My tracking device doesn't seem to be working
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But Grandpa's is working....most of the time.
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