September 27 Saturday: Washougal, Washington 221 miles
Our fall trip started in Washougal with the grandkids. Came on down to watch our cousin Tiana Reynolds ( Sam and Sis grandchild) play volleyball. She plays for Chehalis College in Chehalis, Washington and her team was playing Clark College in Vancouver where our grandson and granddaughter attend college.
That was Friday, yesterday night, and early this morning, Saturday we were off
to Portland where our other granddaughter Jazzy was running cross-country at Portland Meadows.
ran around the massive meadows
horse acing grounds. Nice challenging course where Jazzy ran a good race f
inishing 53rd out of some 190 runners. The race was at 8:30 AM and by 11:30 AM we were headed east up along the Columbia River.
along I-84 pass the Dalles,
when an ambulance flew by us and suddenly a few miles ahead on the interstate,
we came to a sudden stop and sat there for 45 minutes before moving at a
snails pace again. We crawled for several miles
merging from two lanes, to one lane around an over turned semi-truck, still
control or fell asleep and slid into a ditch, turning over and catching fire, is my guess. I
won’t speculate about the driver, just hope he got out, because the cab and trailer were smashed,
charred black and melted from the fire. There were boxes of cooked apples all over the road and in the ditch.
Not the best way to start our travels, but on a short brighter note, the skies did clear up in Eastern Oregon for a short stretch before the clouds reappeared as we climbed into the Blue
Mountains just a few miles pass Pendleton. That night we stayed at Emigrant Springs State Park for our first night of camping on this trip.
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