It wasn't easy getting up but we me met Ryan and Chelsey at Paradox at 08:00 for breakfast. We said our goodbyes and headed, with Chris, back to his apartment to finished packing. We did the good by thing with Chris too and headed North toward the river. We'd been told that there was a bike path along it that would take us most of the way out of town.
The path was super nice riding, we saw all the families out for a Father's Day bike ride. It went past the airport giving you a good view of the airport. It was cool watching these gigantic machines come dropping in as we rode underneath. I really realized how crazy it is that we can build things that fly, I get the same feeling watching trains go by. It's an awe that something that big is moving, it's not natural (literally too).
In Troutdale we got on Hwy 30, Columbia River Gorge Scenic Highway, it was the first highway built along the Columbia. It was designed for scenic driving, no more than 5% grade, it made for great bike riding except for those pesky Fathers Day families driving around. There were probably seven waterfalls along the way, the ones we could see from the road were beautiful. Hwy 30 ended and we got onto I84 for a few miles looking for a campsite. We found it but Oregon has a bad habit of calling day use areas campgrounds. This was one of those cases but we sure weren't going to get back on the Interstate in the dark so we just got out of the way and setup the tent.
andrew
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