{"id":461,"date":"2012-08-23T21:32:44","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T04:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel\/?p=461"},"modified":"2016-08-28T09:56:40","modified_gmt":"2016-08-28T16:56:40","slug":"august-23-chasing-post-cards-in-the-columbia-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/2012\/08\/23\/august-23-chasing-post-cards-in-the-columbia-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"August 23: Chasing Post Cards in the Columbia River Gorge"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_617\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-617\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Columbia-Gorge-Interpretive-Center.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Columbia-Gorge-Interpretive-Center.png\" alt=\"Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center\" title=\"Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-617\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Columbia-Gorge-Interpretive-Center.png 400w, https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Columbia-Gorge-Interpretive-Center-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-617\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center at Stevenson, Washington<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Mile 4543 &#8211; Ocean Park, Washington.<\/strong>  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>\n<p>P.J.&#8217;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.)<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the day, we drove into the night to reach Ocean Park, on Southwest Washington&#8217;s Long Beach Peninsula, where we have rented a house.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_616\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-616\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Columbia-Gorge-Downriver.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Columbia-Gorge-Downriver.png\" alt=\"Columbia Gorge Looking Downriver\" title=\"Columbia Gorge Downriver\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Columbia-Gorge-Downriver.png 400w, https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Columbia-Gorge-Downriver-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-616\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Columbia River Gorge Looking Downriver from Spring Creek<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_619\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-619\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Hood-River-Sign.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Hood-River-Sign.png\" alt=\"Hood River Welcome Sign\" title=\"Hood River Sign\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-619\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Hood-River-Sign.png 300w, https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Hood-River-Sign-225x300.png 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-619\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hood River Welcome Sign<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_615\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-615\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Mt-Hood.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Mt-Hood.png\" alt=\"Mount Hood\" title=\"Mount Hood\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Mt-Hood.png 400w, https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Mt-Hood-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-615\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mount Hood, Beautiful Mountain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_553\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-553\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Historic-Route-30.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Historic-Route-30.png\" alt=\"Road Sign: Historic Route 30\" title=\"Historic Route 30\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Historic-Route-30.png 300w, https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Historic-Route-30-225x300.png 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-553\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Historic Route 30 in the Columbia River Gorge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_618\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-618\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Columbia-Gorge-Upriver.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Columbia-Gorge-Upriver.png\" alt=\"Columbia Gorge Looking Upriver\" title=\"Columbia Gorge Upriver\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-618\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Columbia-Gorge-Upriver.png 400w, https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Columbia-Gorge-Upriver-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-618\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Columbia Gorge Looking Upriver from Vista House<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Vintage Postcard Project:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/vintage\/august-23-columbia-river-gorge\" title=\"Aunt Esther's Vintage Postcards(new site)\">August 23: Columbia River Gorge, Oregon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Photographs &copy; 2012 P.J. Gardner. All Rights Reserved.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mile 4543 &#8211; 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.&#8217;s Great Aunt Esther left a lot of postcards in the Mount Hood River valley and along Historic Route 30, a stretch of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/2012\/08\/23\/august-23-chasing-post-cards-in-the-columbia-valley\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;August 23: Chasing Post Cards in the Columbia River Gorge&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arjan","category-pj"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2044,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions\/2044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}