July 13, 2021
We meet some very interesting people–and pets. The woman pictured below and her family had stopped at a scenic overlook where everyone, the lizard included, were stretching their legs.
Wishram is home to Great Northern 2507, a locomotive built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1923. It pulled passenger trains until 1957 when it was retired.
The Columbia River Gorge has been home to First Nations people who created petroglyphs (etchings in the weathered surface of rock). Thousands of petroglyphs were submerged when dams were built along the river, but a samples were saved and, at the request of a consortium of First Nations people, have been placed at Columbia Hills State Park along the Tamani Pesh-wa Trail (written on rock).
Our handy guide to Klickitat County included information about Schreiner Farms, a 12,000-acre working cattle ranch that also is home to 18 species of exotic animals. The public is allowed to drive through part of the ranch.
We stopped for a geocache at a basalt formation the cache owner named “Mushroom Rock”.
A forest fire was burning near Lyle, Washington. We watched from a rest area as helicopters and a plane fought the blaze.
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