Columbia River Gorge

A bit of history: Back in 1803 Thomas Jefferson, president and revolutionary, bought a bunch of states from the French and sent the Martin and Lewis Expedition to explore them. The explorers suffered many trials and tribulations. Traveling with them was Pocahantas, who, like Jefferson, got her head on a coin, altho nobody used her coin.

We followed much of the same route as the Corps of Discovery on our epic trip across the country, suffering trials and tribulations Meriwether and Bill could never have imagined (they didn’t even have automobiles, how could they imagine the crazy number of bugs that could splash a windshield? )

A couple of quick thoughts: Spokane would not be a good choice of vacation destinations, sometime while we were gone all those drive-thru photo-developing sheds became drive-thru espresso sheds where the girl (who I can only assume is shackled in there) always gets the order wrong, the Columbia River Gorge starts out dry and dusty before getting green and lupine flowery.