June 6, 2015. It is 396 miles from Nehalem State Park to Baker City, OR. We talked about staying around The Dalles tonight, but neither of us was ready to stop at 2:00 PM, so we just kept driving.
We took a wrong turn out of the state park. Actually, we took the turn the GPS told us (me) to take. And, we didn't take the turn that the Atlas (Annie) told us to take. The result was thirty miles of winding, hilly, bumpy road which was no where near the ocean. It was also no where near Cannon Beach, a place Annie wanted to revisit. So, there was an hour of unpleasantness inside T-Harvey. I maintain the blame should be placed on the GPS. Annie has a different suspect in mind.
The winding road with no name took us through harvested forest. I was disappointed that the land hadn't been reclaimed and reseeded. It was a blight on the land. Or, as John Denver put it, another scar upon the land. But, most of the deforested areas we saw were showing new growth. I assume the laws in Oregon have changed in recent times to require reforestation of land where the trees have been cut.
Mount Hood is between Portland and The Dalles. It is an impressive landmark. I have no desire to climb it. There is still a lot of snow up there.
The rest of the pictures are the through-the-windshield variety. You will notice a sprinkling of barns, landscapes, and the Columbia River. We are in a commercial campground tonight outside of Baker City. A camper at Nehalem recommended a tour of the Oregon Trail Interpretative Center here. We may do that in the morning before resuming our drive east.
2 comments:
It's a windmill farm!
In North Carolina a GPS device took us down rugged, rutted, steep, narrow gravel roads. Don't why it took us off the main road, a short cut perhaps? Dan's comment "Local knowledge supersedes GPS knowledge" becomes relevant to our journeys and a good Atlas is always helpful.
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