Dessert and Apple Orchards and some High-power transmission lines...
I turn right at WA-24, first it goes south, then straight West. South of that road is the Hanford Reservation Department of Energy there must be a Nuclear Power-plant or a radioactive waste-station. The land is the size of a small state in Switzerland, the Columbia River flows right through it a curious place.
The Columbia River here is still a small flowing river...
At quarter past four I crosse the Columbia River on WA-24, the other side has another Rest-stop!!!
Here I look around a little, check out a weather station and signs along the fence give you the impression you're in a prison like cage. I move on with WA-24 to WA-241 south back to an Interstate.
Continue to drive on these small roads through this different kind of landscape...
A 19 mile stretch on Interstate I-82 going West and slightly North to get me to US-97. Here I go further south through Yakama Reservation. All of a sudden there are pine-trees now and again a different landscape than just 10 miles ago. Here the Honda completes the 10'000 mile mark for this trip what a great car!!!
An hour later I check into a Motel in the last town in the State of Washington. I pay 65 dollars for a brand new room at the Ponderosa Motel in Goldendale, WA.
Off corse now I get to do some more work on the computer, I'm so far behind with this blog now that I not even know where to start. I upload the pictures form my 3 cameras, then start sorting them out, boy I do take way too many pictures, that's for sure. Then some e-mailing and facebooking and the evening turned into late night, it's time to hit the hay!!!
Saturday, June 27th am I home yet???
It's almost ten, already... I got fresh ice for the cooler hot water for some tea and off I go, back on US-97 going south. First through the Klickitat Valley then in no time the Columbia River Valley appears. It is a long, steep at times, way down to get to cross the river into the State of Oregon.
Failed Farming at the Klickitat Valley, sounds like they had some of this "Click that" way when back...
Then Wind-farms start to appear more and more, literally, getting build as we read this...
The finally the bridge that gets me to Oregon and on the other side of the Columbia River Gorge...
Oregon the Beaver State...
North-Central Oregon is a high dessert east of the Cascade Mountains, must have rich soil because everywhere where it is irrigated agriculture is booming. Miles of fields and any kind of watering system there is is used here. The rich soil must be form the volcanic ashes that covered this whole land here at some point of time in history. You can see all the big peaks of the volcanos at some point of time.
Right now I look to the North I can see Mnt. St. Helens, 8'365 ft...
Interesting flowers along the road...
It is a long climb out of the Columbia River Valley it is slow but study uphill for about 40 miles until it flattens out at the town of Kent. On the way I have passed hundreds of Wind-mills producing power just by sticking their huge props into the air. I beautiful sight and beats to look at a Nuclear Power-plant that spews out a steam-plume of many miles long and visible for another couple dozens of miles.
As I'm flying along US-97 I pass another tree that is covered with shoes I make a U-turn and get a closer look.
Another Shoe-tree just like the one along US Highway 50 in Nevada...
More trucks on the road with part of the new Wind-mills that get build everywhere here...
Finally in the City of Bend, here I meet Family Flip-Flop...
South of Bend US-97 dives into the never-ending woods of the Deschutes National Forest...
It's 3 o'clock and I already covered 268 miles...
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