July 12, 2021 Sam Hill was a businessman, lawyer, railroad executive and advocate of good roads. In 1906 he laid at his own expense, ten miles of asphalt-paved Macadam road between Goldendale and the Columbia River and paved it using seven different techniques. Sam Hill also constructed a full-size replica Read more…
July 8-9, 2021 Geocaching goals can be as simple as finding a cache or as complicated as finding a cache hidden in each of the months since geocaching began. Dave is working on his bank of old caches and we set out to get two of them on our way Read more…
July 10, 2021 Goldendale is the largest city and county seat of Klickitat County. Its population is 3,600. Its name comes from John Golden, an early homesteader. We were in town for Community Days and got to enjoy the parade.
July 7-8, 2021 Goldendale is about 130 miles east of Sauvie Island. Once we got through Portland, we were on Interstate 84 on the Columbia River Gorge, part of which is designated a national scenic area. The drive was beautiful and the traffic moderate but the wind was fierce (as Read more…
July 5, 2021 We enjoyed a lunch cruise on the Portland Spirit, a 150-foot yacht that let us see the Willamette River and the beautiful bridges that cross it. Did we get a picture of the boat itself? The photo below was borrowed from the attraction’s website.
June 29-July 7, 2021 Portland was . . . interesting. We didn’t like the traffic and we hated seeing the many homeless encampments because we couldn’t imagine that the people living there could be healthy and safe. On Sunday morning we had a nice geocache find–an old firehouse converted to Read more…
June 15-29, 2021 We often tell people how geocaching has taken us to fascinating places, many of which we might not have discovered otherwise. This post features a few places near Eugene that we enjoyed. Yoncalla Cemetery Eugene Masonic Cemetery Skinner’s Butte Slowly cooling lava created these basalt columns on Read more…
June 24, 2021 Crater Lake National Park gets 44 feet of snow each year which typically lasts 8 months. We visited the day after Rim Drive in the park opened for the season. We met daughter (Elizabeth) Leigh and son-in-law Brett at nearby Diamond Lake overlook where we had great Read more…
June 21, 2021 We took scenic highway 38 and stopped at the Elkton Community Education Center. We completed a multi-part geocache that took us by this sculpture. The property features a reconstruction of Fort Umpqua, a trading post and built by the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1836. A herd of Read more…
June 20, 2021 Yes! There were mammoth (top) and mastodon (bottom) teeth in the museum! [Hope you weren’t waiting for the suspense to build.] We enjoyed the story of how Luther Cressman hypothesized that Indigenous people had inhabited North America (specifically Paisley Cave in central Oregon) at the same time Read more…