We just finished up a two week stay in the Portland area. Here is where our oldest daughter and her husband live so it was nice to be able to catch up with them. We had also made arrangements with our friends, the Sherwood’s, to join us for a few days to do some wine tasting in Hood River, Oregon.
We had a great time visiting with our daughter and husband, tasting ciders, going bowling and taking a hike in a Portland park.
On this trip to Portland we were at the perfect time for the roses blooming at the International Rose Test Garden. Fran was in heaven walking the gardens and taking pictures. There are over 500 varieties of roses in the garden.
Our friends flew in and our daughter joined us for three days in Hood River, Oregon. We actually stayed in a hotel! This is a beautiful area of the Columbia River Gorge about 60 miles from Portland. There are many vineyards here along with a number of wineries with a quaint little town. It is nice as this is a developing area so the tasting fees are minimal and not busy tasting rooms. We had a great time visiting about 15 wineries over the 3 days.
We all agreed that the tasting room where we had the most fun was a downtown Hood River tasting room for Naked Winery. It was by far the busiest one we visited.
We also visited a tasting room for Stoltz wines that was in a former funeral home.
We had a great time with everyone and tasted some very good wines.
We left the Portland area this past Thursday and moved to Bothell, Washington which is just outside Seattle.
I wanted to add one additional item to this post regarding our travels. While I was updating our route map I remembered a post that was floating around Facebook a few months ago showing the route to take to see 50 of the top attractions in the United States. I copied that map and have included it here, along with our trip map, so you can see how we have done. We have seen two thirds of the 50 spots on their list.
Perfect road trip map Our map
Route: From Seal Rock, Oregon we took US 101 north to Highway 18 east to Interstate 5 to Interstate 84 to Fairview, Oregon.
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