(Note and FYI: Many of the travel pictures that I take are done at 60-70 mph out the front windshield or the side window in a very bouncy truck. Some/many may not have clarity, however, I post them for me and for you so I can record what that part of the country looks like and for my memory.)
After lots of hugs and see you laters, we left Sue’s home and headed west.
Love the shadow of the RV:
Horses:
Sheep:
Into Oregon:
Lots of hay:
Oh-no..thank God the weather was good.
We climbed quite a few “hills”:
And saw many parts of wind turbines in transit:
Beautiful:
Love this house:
Another one:
Check out the white stripes on these cows:
A VORTEC – I was so excited to see it!
We have seen a few of these in our travels and they just fascinate me. So what are they?
“Very high frequency omni-directional range (VOR) is a type of short-range radio navigation system for aircraft, enabling aircraft with a receiving unit to determine its position and stay on course by receiving radio signals transmitted by a network of fixed ground radio beacons.”
More information can be found here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHF_omnidirectional_range
What goes up must come down:
Last Warning.. There were quite a few before this one.
Runaway truck ramps:
The view coming down the hill:
Beautiful golden color:
Watching her property:
Solar farms:
Another VORTEC – Yippee!
I did not get a good picture but these are the Umatilla Chemical Depot bunkers and there are 1001 of them.
“The Umatilla Chemical Depot bunkers were used as storage for WWII and Cold War era conventional ammunition of all types, as well chemical weapons such as containing GB and VX nerve agents and HD blister agent . Though the site is incredibly vast, it contained only some 12% of the US stockpile of such weapons.”
“A thousand and one munitions storage bunkers, called igloos, dominate the depot landscape and can be seen on the north side of I-84 and to the west of I-82. As of 2015, nearly all of them are empty. Constructed in rows, the larger igloos are 30 by 80 feet, and the smaller ones 24 by 61 feet. The ends and sides are ten inches of reinforced concrete, covered with two feet of dirt. The concrete tops were constructed so that the force would be directed upward if an explosion occurred. The igloos, which are typical of storage bunkers at other installations, were constructed at a rapid rate. A world construction record was set on September 24, 1941, when twenty-four were poured in one day.”
More information can be found here:
https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/umatilla_army_depot/#.Yzm89XbMJPY
The Columbia River Bridge:
McNary Lock and Dam on the Columbia River:
Into Washington:
One last look at the dam and river:
We landed at Plymouth Campground – an ACOE Campground. We will be here for 3 nights and will be doing some exploring. So stay tuned and enjoy today.
Miles Traveled: 260 Miles
Routes Traveled:
Idaho: US-95; Truck Route in Weiser, ID – not sure where our GPS took us; RT-201
Oregon: US-95; RT-201; I-84; I-82
Washington: I-82; WA-14; Plymouth Road; Christy Road
