April 28 - travel day and meet Jeremy and Michael

Today was a travel day. Left Astoria and headed east to Portland (guess we couldn’t go much more west). Jean and Dick Stauffer’s son lives in Portland so we texted them to see if we could take them to lunch. I’ve only met he and Michael through Jean’s blog so I wanted to officially meet them and see where they live. 

They live on the east side of Portland so it was very easy for us to get there. They have the cutest house with a great backyard. Love their container garden. 

Guess you can’t see the seating area that Jeremy designed and Dad Dick built. Very comfortable. 

Walked to a restaurant and had a tasty lunch. Along our walk, they showed us the “monkey tree.”  

But it was time to get on the road. Drove along the Columbia River gorge. Beautiful drive. Notice no trees. Getting too dry. 

Ended up at Peach RV Park, Maryjill, WA, along the Columbia River  There are peach and cherry tree orchards all around us but fruit isn’t ready yet. 

Nice evening and full moon.