Hi everyone! We have been moving east, slowly, with plans to be back in Columbus before Thanksgiving. My last post was about our time on the Oregon coast. From there we moved inland Oregon, to the Columbia River Gorge area. Unfortunately, we couldn’t access any of the hikes or scenic drive along the Columbia River Gorge, the roads were all still closed from fires this summer. The highway, interstate 84, was back open, but the historic Columbia River Gorge road and all the state parks and hiking areas were still closed. So we found a couple of hikes in other areas nearby, and crossed the Bridge of the Gods across the Columbia River over to the Washington side. We did this in the truck, leaving the RV at the campground – Steve has a hard time with bridges and heights, and there is NO WAY he would have considered crossing this bridge with the RV in tow! We hiked to a beautiful waterfall, hidden way back into the forest, I have a picture of it below.
We then moved on to Mountain Home, Idaho, then to Brigham City, Utah, then to Rawling, Wyoming, then to Cheyenne Wyoming. We spent 2 – 3 days in each stop, and got in a hike just about everywhere. We visited some sand dunes at a state park in Idaho – Gerry loved running up and down the dunes. You can see our terrain is changing quickly! From the lush, green forests and waterfalls of Washington and Oregon to very desert like terrain.
There’s not a lot to report about these stops, they were pretty functional. We took interstate 84 to interstate 80, which took us through the not-so-pretty parts of Idaho and Utah and Wyoming. We plan to visit these states again at some point, and go to the more attractive areas and national parks. But, for this trip, we were ready to spend some time on interstates and wanted to get moving east, so this route worked for that purpose. But, we still got out and hiked and tried to explore the areas we were in and enjoyed the good weather we have had.
I’m writing this post while in Ft. Collins, Colorado. We have some repairs to the RV that are underway, I will have a separate post about all of that our our time at the Hilton Hotel (yes, they allow dogs and Gerry is not sure he likes hotel living!)
In the meantime, hope you all are enjoying fall and Go Bucks this weekend against Penn State!
Some pictures below, and also at this link: https://1drv.ms/a/s!Ap-2lg-EnL0plXnzlR8S4Wu3mLgx
