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Cadillac Owners.com First National Meet
Des Moines, Iowa — May 18-20, 2007
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Cadillac Owners.com First National Meet
Des Moines, Iowa — May 18-20, 2007
I took Tuesday afternoon off to get a head start on the trip, and we left my house around 1 p.m. Stopped at a viewpoint of I-205 west of Oregon City for a view of Mt. Hood (kind of lost in the haze) and Willamette Falls. Continued east on I-84 through the scenic Columbia River Gorge with a stop at Multnomah Falls and pictures of St. Peter's Landmark in The Dalles.
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| Loaded up with a plug-in cooler | Even a Cadillac-size trunk is no match for a long road trip with a set of golf clubs | Road-trip entertainment; my iPod and a $20 cassette adapter | Starting mileage |
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| Hoover's ready to go for a long ride. | High gas prices won't stop me or Cruella | Hard to see through the haze, but that's Mt. Hood in the distance. | Willamette Falls near Oregon City |
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| Willamette River near Oregon City | Columbia River Gorge along I-84 east of Portland | ||
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| Columbia River Gorge along I-84 east of Portland | |||
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| Approaching Multnomah Falls | Stopping at Multnomah Falls | Multnomah Falls in the Columbia River Gorge | |
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| Multnomah Falls, at 620 feet, is the second-highest year-round waterfall in the U.S. and the most popular natural tourist attraction in Oregon | The Benson Bridge at Multnomah Falls | ||
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| Multnomah Falls is actually two waterfalls | Multnomah Falls runs into this creek, which flows into the Columbia River | Labs are notorious chewers; the only thing Hoover chews are leashes. I forgot to take it off when we stopped at the Mt. Hood viewpoint; by the time we reached Multnomah Falls 30 minutes later, he chewed through it. I tied together the remnants to use at the falls, then got him a new one in The Dalles. | |
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| Columbia River Gorge along I-84 east of Multnomah Falls | |||
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| St. Peter's Landmark, a former Catholic parish in The Dalles | |||
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| I-84 east of The Dalles | |||
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| I-84 east of The Dalles | |||
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