Well I am using it today. I am sick. Stomach again and 'other' things...again. Constantly happening. I'm beginning to think I actually have something wrong with my digestive system. All I really know is its frigging annoying. (shovel list). I had to take a gravol a while ago, consequently I am not quite with it. My apologies for any confusion in the post today.
We had a wonderful adventurous day today. We just took off east and didn't even take a map. We wanted to see what we would end up seeing.
We left the freeway to go see a park, Rooster Rock Park. It was a pay place but we went to the wooden shed and asked the girl how much and what was this place. Basically it was just a place to launch boats and picnic and swim, there was a small beach, and enjoy the summer day. It was massive. It could accommodate well over two hundred vehicles. There were maybe only about twenty there, it was early. She let us in for free to just drive to the end and see the rooster rock. Yeah. Maybe. Reminded me of China...eking out the importance of a place due to some insignificant thing. I put a pic of rooster rock below..you can make your own mind up about it.
We then took the 30 road and drove up to a veiwpoint. I hiked the loop twice so I did a mile. Cookie hiked up or down to a waterfall...apparently a disappointing one. Keep in mind the heat was excruciatingly killing.
We drive on, up and up and up and up! The road super reminded us of the banana bread trail in Maui. Very windy and narrow and green green green. We finally came to the oddest sight. It was called Vista House. The stone and marble building was built 100 years ago. Originally it was built in 1916-18 as a comfort station for travellers. Now its a museum of sorts honouring the Oregon explorers and pioneers. The views up there were crazy!
From there we found a lavender farm. It was beautiful, full of bees, seriously full of bees, and smelled divine I bought a couple of sachets. Tank will be smelling girly by tomorrow!
From there we headed back to Troutdale. Oh, speaking of which we did start the day at the outlet mall...a bust for sure. Didn't take us long to get out of there. But we did find a ridiculous sad pub for a beer and a salad. Then I got sick. Poof! Just like that. So home we went, I popped a strong gravol and passed out til sixish. We went across the parking lot to a restaurant for a light supper and now in our room reading and blogging. Thats it folks! Home tomorrow night. TTYL
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| THE INSIDE OF VISTA HOUSE....PICS ARE OUT OF ORDER AS PER USUAL |
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| ODD ROCK FORMATIONS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF COLUMBIA RIVER |
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| A HAUNTED HOUSE WE FOUND |
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| AN OLD WORK HORSE |
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| A BARBIE POST...WHY NOT |
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| ROOSTER ROCK....YES? NO? |
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| IVY COVERED...BUT I MISSED THAT PART |
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| COLUMBIA RIVER EAST |
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| COLUMBIA RIVER WEST |
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| TANK |
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| VISTA HOUSE |
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| A BURST OF LAVENDER |
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