The Dalles and Hood River, Oregon

Monday, July 22, 2013

Neither of us got much sleep last night, so we slept in this morning, but we did manage to get out of the trailer and out to see some of the sites in the area.

We decided to do a loop back the way we came, but this time we started on the Washington side, state highway 14. We had thought about coming in this way, but we found out today that it was a very good thing that we didn’t. There is a tunnel, not to far east from White Salmon, rounded like a mouse hole and only 13’2”, our trailer tops 13’6”, so we need a clearance of at least 14’ to allow room for error. Turning around on the other side would have been difficult at best! A couple of miles beyond the tunnel was another bridge that went across the river into the town of ‘The Dalles.’ Our destination here was “The Discovery Center”

which was about the Lewis and Clark Experience on the Columbia River, and partly about the Oregon Trail. By this time, it was getting late, so we only had

1-1/2 hours to go through this museum, so I told Phil he was going to have to snap his pictures fast and not linger!! We made it through it and still had time to go through the gift shop, where all we bought was a magnet!

That has to be some sort of record of the least amount of money spent in a gift shop for us!!

After leaving the ‘Discovery Center’ we headed west on Historic Highway 30, which use to be the main road through the Gorge. We followed it part way, then headed back to the trailer.