Saturday, November 8, 2014

Down the Willamette River to Lake Oswego

After a week of computers, computers, computers.. Ah!
This sun is shinning the people and walking and cycling.
Time to get out of the house and explore.

OK, now I have gotten lost every single time I have gone out in the car. If not for our cool little homemade GPS mapping system, I would certainly be lost somewhere in Idaho looking for a gas station.

Today was no exception, I planned to cross the highway and head south along the Willamette River to Lake Oswego a little south of us.

Child Please! I ended up on the highway heading north at 65mph. Now for most people this may not be a real problem, but for a professional navigator like me, it is ego crushing. There is not a straight road around here the hills where we are make San Francisco look like the plains of Nebraska.

OK back to the story.

Nice drive down the river. OMG the mansions along the river with their docks!
The river is beautiful. We were on the beach, yep at the beach in Portland, and saw, twice, huge fish crashing the top of the water! Now that's what I'm talking about. And there were ducks, I guess, I did hear quaking, but I was looking for fish damn it!

Lake Oswego is a nice little town the Native Americans used to hang out at, and live in peace. When the "BFUDRWP" (big fat ugly disease ridden white people) got here, they took over and created a foundry to make iron pipes to sell to Portland. Apparently, Native Americans never really needed iron pipes - they were happy without them.  Nice big lake and the river going by. Cool, old town we will have to come back to for a lunch and explore.
David




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