After a whole lot of searching for a place that could provide us with a spot over the Holiday weekend, we make our way up to an RV Park in the Portland area at Fairview, OR near the Columbia River.
On Saturday we meet Shelly and her kids MacKenzie & Michael for a pretty nice day at the Portland Zoo and pretty much wore ourselves out.
And on the way home take a tour of the Pittock Mansion that overlooks all of Portland. The house was built in 1909 by Henry Pittock who was the publisher of the Oregonian newspaper.
Sunday we head down to Oregon City, a ways south of Portland. This is the town that marks the End of the Oregon Trail.
It also is the location of the Willamette Falls of the Willamette River. The photo here is from one of the tour brochures that described them as being the second largest falls in the country, and we were really looking for to seeing them.
Not to be overly negative but we were quite simply stunned at the current reality.
The falls have been almost totally blocked off and are just barely visible.
And the level of disrepair of all of the adjacent industrial buildings is shocking.
It became pretty clear to us why the Willamette Falls are publicized as little as they are.
I guess there is quite a lot of History to be proud of but the destruction of the natural environment is too bad.
On July 4 we had a nice holiday lunch at another McMenamin's restaurant at Edgefield.
This is a major area concert venue. We had wanted to visit it for quite some time and spent a while exploring all the building and gardens of this former "poor house" from the depression era.
Definitely not a poor house today!
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