10-20-17

Today is the last day of this trip.  We left this morning to explore a little west of Umatilla.  We drove to Boardman OR and visited the city park.  There was a covered area with rocks inside carved with old native American petroglyphs.

It was a windy day, which is typical for the Columbia Gorge.  Below is a picture of whitecaps on the river from the window of the restaurant where we had lunch.

In the park outside the restaurant was an old tugboat.

After lunch we visited the Sage Center, which is an agricultural museum we had passed on the highway many times.  It was actually very well done.  They  had a kinetic reproduction of the processing of potatoes from harvest to curly fries.  There were exhibits on irrigation, different crops, dairy production, barge and train transportation of foods and several other interesting topics.  We were glad we saw it.

Tomorrow morning we will head for home.