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Washington Trip 8/22/2012 Day 5 Part 1

Leaving Walla Walla for Hood River, OR. 

Waking up in Walla Walla. This is the Colonial Motel. That whole end was our room.

This garden was right by our room.

I had to get a few pictures

Basketball hoop right outside our room. It was a pretty morning. 

I wanted a picture with the garden.

We ate breakfast and headed over to the Whitman Mission.

We were the only ones there most of the time so it was really peaceful.

In 1836, a small group of Presbyterian missionaries traveled with the annual fur trapper's caravan into "Oregon Country". Among the group, Narcissa Whitman and Eliza Hart Spalding became the first white women to travel across the continent. Differences in culture led to growing tensions between the native Cayuse people and the Whitmans. Their mission became an important stop along the Oregon Trail, and passing immigrants added to the tension. A measles outbreak in 1847 killed half the local Cayuse. Some of the Cayuse blamed these deaths on Dr. Whitman. Dr. and Mrs. Whitman were killed along with eleven others; Forty-seven other mission residents were taken hostage. The deaths of the Whitmans shocked the country, prompting Congress to make Oregon a U.S. territory, and precipitated the Cayuse War.

The Oregon Trail.

We always seemed to find construction traffic.

Driving two and a half hours on the Oregon side.

Wind farms! I loved them. Lots of pictures!

The Columbia River

The Columbia and a wind farm.

Crossing the Columbia to the Washington side.

This is the view from our stop.

Prepare yourself.

Oh yah, it is a replica of Stonehenge!

Near the town site of Maryhill, Washington, three miles east of Maryhill Museum of Art, stands a replica of Stonehenge built by Samuel Hill. Dedicated in 1918 to the servicemen of Klickitat County, Washington who died in the service of their country during the Great War, Hill's Stonehenge Memorial stands as a monument to heroism and peace.

More wind farms from the Stonehedge replica. Next stop, the Maryhill Museum...

Washington Trip 8/21/12 Day 4 Part 2

After lunch in Spokane, we headed south toward Walla Walla.

We did this for a couple of hours.

Winding through wheat rolling wheat fields. It reminded me of Doni Smith's pictures of where she lives, St. John. Then we went past the turn for St. John. No wonder it looked to familiar!

Then in the middle of the fields we followed the route to the Palouse Falls. It was a winding road and we were the only ones. We parked and you could hear this sound.

And there it was!

Oh, yah, Jerry and I rocked matching outfits that day...by mistake!

Self portrait did not work.

We left the falls and made our way toward Walla Walla.

There were a couple little towns we went through. Coming out of one little town, Jerry yells, "CAMEL."

We stopped the car to take a picture of course. He was looking right at us!

Our motel in Walla Walla.

We had dinner out and then ran laundry at the laundry mat. We had to plan our day and then get up the next morning for the Whitman Mission.