With the pandemic, holidays have been a bit challenging. We spent Thanksgiving morning at Amicalola Falls State Park and topped it off with a short hike at Fort Mountain State…
Georgia's largest waterfall is only about 75 miles northwest of Atlanta. Since the pandemic began, we've explored places closer to home and we recently set out for Amicalola Falls State…
"Where are we?" my husband asked impatiently as we passed yet another car repair shop. The industrial neighborhood wasn't remotely familiar and he assumed I had the wrong directions. To…
On their 1805 journey to the Pacific Ocean. Lewis & Clark traveled along the Columbia River Gorge. The explorers sailed past waterfalls and high canyons. Today, travelers can drive along the gorge on a combination of the Historic Columbia River Highway and I-84 from Portland to the Dalles.
In 1913, construction began on the 74-mile scenic highway to offer tourists a glimpse of the gorge’s natural beauty. Considered an engineering feat at its time, it was the first paved highway in the Pacific Northwest and the first planned US scenic highway.
Since we came from Mt. Hood, we started our journey along the Columbia River Gorge in Hood River before heading east to Portland.
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