Jacqueline’s Jaunts

We are up and off to 1) check out the tunnel for the ride home. 2) Head down to the Dalles Visitor Center on the Oregon side.  The tunnel was an alternate way to leave other than taking the crazy bridge. The tunnel is narrow and only 12.5 inches high where it curves up. This would mean we would have to go straight down the middle. Something for us to think about. We are aware that logging trucks take this tunnel, but we will have to think about this.  Well, the Visitor Center was closed. It’s only open Friday-Sunday. The information site was not updated. But we were able to see a life-size eagle's nest outside.  Instead, we headed West to the Bonneville Locks & Dam and the visitor center on the Dalles side.   A huge facility on the Columbia River, in addition to a dam, is a fish conservation site, hydroelectric generation, and locks for ships to navigate.   Life-Size Eagle's Nest It was an interesting place to explore. They actually count the fish ...

  This trip is mainly to visit Yellowstone National Park. It’s been on my bucket list. We will be visiting five National Parks: Grand Tetons, Yellowstone, Little Bighorn Battlefield, Theodore Roosevelt, Glacier, and the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area. The states we will travel through are Idaho, Wyoming, North Dakota, Montana, and Washington. Our planned route is below. We left on Friday at 11:30 AM, an hour and a half after our plan. We made it to Ryan and Amanda’s by 3:45 PM. Just in enough time to park the RV, grab our jackets, and jump in Ryan’s truck to head to La Pine for Tucker’s Little League game. We knew it was going to be tight time-wise, but we made it. The game started with Tucker’s team scoring five runs in the first few innings. The game was tied in the fifth inning. In the next-to-last inning, the other team pulled ahead by one. His team had one last chance at bat to score the tying run, but it did not happen. Tucker had one hit, one strikeout, and an inf...