Life in Portland, 2008

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Getting to Snake River Correctional Institue (just outside Ontario, Oregon) was quite simple, just follow I84 East along the Columbia River (the border to Washington) and then South along Snake River (the border with Idaho). It was the first time I had travelled along the Columbia gorge. There were dams across the Columbia to generate power along lots of windmills (also tied into the power grid from the hydroelectric dams). Early on we passed the Cascade mountains and the terrain went from the green pine forests to prairie desert which, apparently is typical of Western Washington and Oregon.
We saw lots of windmills to be along 84. This is the generator to hold three blades. We only saw one blade and it was about seventy feet long. Wow. There were large white cylinders (about 50 feet each) so that two of them would make the base. Below you can see fields on the top of the hills which are irrigated by the Columbia. We stopped at a rest stop on the way out and Rick and Joellen let there dog, Foxy, out for romp (also below).	=0=
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The program at Snake River went great, but there were a few minor glitches with the trip. Rick and Joellen left a bag of food at Susan's (doh!) and I left the diskettes for my camera at home (doh!). Most of these pictures were taken with the camera in my phone after I took the ten or so pictures that fit on the diskette that was in my normal camera. They aren't quite as good, but I got lots of them. :-)