Jacqueline’s Jaunts

Our Camp Site in Gorge Base Camp RV Park Woke up to great weather today and no wind. Gotta love that! Today is our last day at the Gorge.  We visited the  Bonneville Dam Power Generator # 2 on the Washington side. There is no visitor center, but there is a store where you can get passport stamps and stickers. That always makes me happy. We were able to join one of the turbine tours at 1:30 PM, so we had a few hours to walk around. We also had lunch outside and we enjoyed the sunshine. The turbine area was also featured as the  evil   laboratory in the 1980s film   Short Circuit .   We started the tour on the top level. Our Ranger was very informative and fun. Six of the eight turbines were shut down, and we learned that during fish migration times, they do not run them. Shad and Lamprey are working their way up the ladders this time of year. We did get to observe the crane moving above the turbines, which was cool. Our group then moved down to the leve...

28 May 2025, Jimmy Carter National Historical Park and Jimmy Carter Boyhood Farm, Plains, Georgia Plains, Georgia, was only a 30-minute drive from Andersonville and our destination for the day. We visited the  Jimmy Carter National Historical Park .  We needed to buy a few groceries and some cold medicine for Barry. We found a Walgreens in Americus on the way to Plains. We stopped and picked up everything on our Walgreens list. We will stop by a grocery store on the way back.   Plains was only another 10 minutes from Americus. Our first stop was the Plains High School Museum and Visitor Center for Passport Book Stamps. Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter attended high school here. What a great job they have done preserving the building and making it into a museum honoring the Carters. The museum has done an excellent job of covering Jimmy and Rosalynn’s time spent here in addition to some of his early political career. There are a lot of great quotes from Jimmy Carter on the w...