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Jul 2, 2011 - Columbia River Gorge

After a week in southern and central Idaho, we decided it was time to head west into Oregon. The eastern part of that state has similar terrain, precipitation and vegetation as the southern part of Idaho…that is to say, pretty dry and desert-like with lots of sagebrush and stunted shrubs except where there is irrigation. It also is a very sparsely populated area, so we just rode until we were tired, which ended up being in Pendleton, Oregon – home of the lovely Pendleton woolen blankets and goods. We didn’t go buy anything though. We stayed...

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Jun 3, 2010 - Columbia Gorge, OR

We're now following the Lewis and Clark trail going back east via the Columbia River. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark were sent west by President Jefferson in 1804 to survey the recent Louisiana Purchase (much of the mid-west) and they continued west into "Oregon Country" still under dispute as to whether owned by the US or Britain. The countries finally settled the dispute in the 1840s and that's when the US Congress enacted the "Donation Land Claim Act" to reward pioneers settling in OR (married couples could claim up to 1 sq. mile of...

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