I’m lucky in that I have travelled all over for work. From about 1993 through 2006 I travelled 3-4 times a year to Portland, Oregon for visits to my biggest customer. Given flight schedules and meeting times I usually had a free day to explore. I’ve been up the Columbia River Gorge, to the Pacific Ocean shore, atop Mt Hood, and three times to view the wreckage of Mt St. Helens.
The St Helens eruption of May 18, 1980 left a lasting scar on the landscape. In my earliest visits, the downed trees were everywhere. In my last visit, a decade later, the forest was already reinventing itself.
The volcano is something you should see if you are ever in the Pacific Northwest.
I have often said if I could ever only go on one more trip, this area would probably be my choice. Not the other places I’ve been: Hawaii, Europe, China, Caribbean islands. I love the area around Portland, despite what the leftists have done to the area.
A trip to Mt.St. Helens would be great. Exactly what have leftists done to the area? I have not heard.
ReplyDeleteBeginning south of Portland, then driving northbound on Interstate 5, then going through Portland (towards Washington State), there are homeless encampments on either side of the freeway. Large brown or blue tarps cover their tents (if they have them). [also, it says, "I love the area around Portland, despite what the leftists have done to the area." But I am wondering what areas, . . . ]?
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