August 23: Chasing Post Cards in the Columbia River Gorge

Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center at Stevenson, Washington

Mile 4543 – Ocean Park, Washington. The National Weather Service threatened us with clouds and a chance of showers, but once again we experienced a mostly sunny day from sunrise to sundown.

P.J.’s Great Aunt Esther left a lot of postcards in the Mount Hood River valley and along Historic Route 30, a stretch of highway preserved in the Columbia River Gorge, so we spent most of the day trying to find the sites, with P.J. taking comparative pictures. We succeeded with most but not all. (Successes follow in the next post.)

At the end of the day, we drove into the night to reach Ocean Park, on Southwest Washington’s Long Beach Peninsula, where we have rented a house.