Today the plan was to see Silver Falls State Park. I rode my bike down while Trish and the kids drove:
It was a beautiful ride through the farmlands of the Willamette Valley:
We hiked a couple short trails that took us to two of the waterfalls in the park:
South Falls has a 240ish foot drop:
It was neat to walk in behind the waterfall:
We visited Upper North Fall as well, which was quite a bit shorter:
I rode back to Portland with Trish and the kids. What a beautiful way to spend a day!
We left the RV in Portland and drove north to Mt. St. Helens National Volcanic Monument. The visitor center was well done. Visibility was down to a mile of so thanks to fog, so unfortunately we didn’t get to see the mountain, but the kids did receive their Junior Ranger badges:
We then headed North to Chehalis where Trish had arranged for us to meet up with Liz and Jason. We decided to go bowling, and we were assigned a pair of lanes in their own private space:
The kids gave it their best:
Afterwards we flew Jason’s quadricopter and R/C plane a bit. He’s a very gifted pilot!
Tomorrow we head south from Portland towards Salem.
We packed up this morning form our dispersed camping site in the Tillamook State Forest:
We ended up backing up down to the road, which was only a few hundred yards, but it was so steep that the weight of the RV would pull the back end of the SUV down slope whenever I would turn the SUV to change the RV’s orientation. We will be purchasing new rear tires next week.
We decided to head home by way of Tillamook, and stopped in to tour the cheese factory there:
It was a great tour. It was neat to see the place where Portland’s kosher cheese is made!
We returned to Portland in the afternoon, and are getting ready for Yom Kippur, which is tonight.
See the trip map for today’s drive and our current location.
Today Trish did tons of cooking for the three day holiday set that begins tonight. Trish insisted that instead of watching the kids, I wire a meter into our breaker box so that we would know how much power we’ve used when we visit people:
…Or maybe not.
In the afternoon, we decided to visit Portland’s famous Powel’s book store. On the way, we visited the old synagogue building as well as the townhouse we lived in before moving to New York. The four row houses pictured were all occupied by members of the Synagogue. Ours was second from the left:
After we returned, I went for a brief bike ride. It was nice to see Beaverton and TV highway again. Here are the stats:
See you after Shabbos!
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