Columbia - Portland

I was guided by a compass I saw beauty to the north – Dropkick Murphys “Rose Tattoo”

From Bend – having scarcely seen the city – we headed further north. The plan was to spend the night in Portland, but first we wanted to see several waterfalls along the southern bank of the Columbia River. We set out towards Mount Hood and, hoping for some good photographs, decided to skirt it from the east. Unfortunately, as on the previous day, the highway mostly ran between two dense walls of forest, with only the snowy summit visible above. There were no clearly marked viewpoints along the way, so with hardly any stops, we reached the town of Hood River by midday (I never cease to marvel at the originality of American place names).