Ecola Beach

Thursday, sunny,  better to go to the beach between rainy days.

A Sunny Sunday

Today was probably the last sunny Sunday this year.  So we decided to show my sisiter and her husband the Columbia Gorge.  So after church we packed a lunch and headed up I-84, turned off at exit 22 and drove east on old Highway 30.  The route dates back to the early 1920s and it was quite an engineering marvel as it winds and twists along the walls of the Gorge, peaking at the many waterfalls and blinking at the sunlight that flickers through the trees that line the roadway.  It is what I like to call a "Porsche Road".  The perfect road for a rear-engine sports cars with the Targa Top off that allow views of the mossy cliffs over your head.

Airplanes

Wednesday was going to rainy so my brother in law and I went to the Evergreen Air Museum in McMinnville.  Three beautiful buildings, two great museums and a theater. 
   Lots of airplanes.  Lots of walking around airplanes.  Lots of info about airplanes.  Lots of airplanes photo opportunities.  And then there was the Spruce Goose.  The world's largest wooden airplane.  An amazing engineering feat.  It it actually flew.  Well, up to 70 feet, anyway.  Did I mention that it was huge!  Most of this super large hanger space is dominated by this machine.

  Another day I will visit the second hanger.