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Aug 1, 2012 - St. Peter’s, OR (The Columbia River Gorge)

We saw the most amazing waterfalls while visiting The Gorge! The Columbia River really puts on a show here with lush green landscape with waterfalls to the west and arid desert to the east. We saw lots of windsurfers and kite boarders at Hood River where we stopped for lunch at Full Sail Brewery and Pub. We enjoyed fish and chips; the fish was coho salmon! After lunch we drove the Fruit Loop to see Mount Hood along with many fruit (mostly pear) and hazelnut trees. This area supplies the Harry and David store with its pears! On the return...

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Jun 6, 2010 - Portland (Ainsworth State Park), Oregon

We arrived here at the park in steady down pour of rain. Our plan to stop at Crabtree (Nancy's Grandmother Barnes was Mable Agnes Crabtree whose ancestors settled here from Virginia - first child born here was a Crabtree) , Oregon was canceled due to too much rain. The hills and mountains are so green and the flowers along the roadside are bright yellow from all the rain. Did I say RAIN? It has rained all but 3 days since May 24Th. We will see whether we stay the 5 nights here or not, and did I mention there is a railroad track somewhere...

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Aug 17, 2008 - Ainsworth State Park, OR

We traveled 143 miles from August 17th to August 19th We were so enamored of Oregon State Parks that we did some research while in Castle Rock and discovered three parks with campgrounds along the Columbia River Gorge that did not require advance reservations: Ainsworth State Park, Viento State Park and Memaloose State Park. We decided to try our luck at each to determine how many miles we would travel today. Two other things contributed to our decision to return to the Oregon side of the river. Washington State had a burn ban in effect –...

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