February 4 - 6, 1947

Tuesday February 4, 1947

Leaving Ebba’s at noon came on Wash. side to Vancouver across to Portland  rock slide so we had to take a 3 mile detour.  Some Road.  Found Linda’s,  Helen but she could not tell us just where to find their  logging camp for sure, so we went back to Vancouver, down Wash. side of Col. R. (Columbia River) and couldn’t find a cabin until we got to N. Bonneville at 8:00.  Got a nice cabin with kitchen, bedroom, front room, shower, toilet and closet for $4.00.

February 5, 1947

Leaving at 8:30, looked the dam over from Wash. side, crossed “Bridge of the Gods” to Oregon side.  Saw a boat with raft of logs go thru “locks.”

Found Delta and her hubby in bed. Spent about 30 min. there Delta married Jan. 15, 1947. No idea how Delta is related.

Saw  Horse Tail Falls, picture of D & Roy. Multnomah Falls, Wahkeena Falls, took picture of Ocean, Bridal Veil Falls, Shepherds Dell, Latourell Falls,  Crown Point Vista House where we turned around & started to retrace the 17 miles to Bonneville,  Which we came up thru so Dwane could see the waterfalls we saw 13 years ago.  Really looked Bonneville Dam and Locks over from Oregon side.

On down the CAl. Hiway thru tunnels, Rowena Loops and on to The Dalles.  Got a nice cabin ( a real home) for $5.00.  We had smelt for supper.

February 6, 1947 

Postcard dated Feb.6 to Geneva

Do you remember this fall? Dwane thought it pretty nice.  It had so much water going over it the spray was hitting the hiway.  We hope to see Clifford S. sometime today. Spent a lot of time seeing Bonneville dam and other places along Col. R. Hiway.  We are in a cabin here at The Dalles, Oregon ―ready to leave.  Love, Mother

Leaving at 8:45 Locks for boats, freighters etc. all the way to Celiolita Falls,  Took a picture here.

on to Pasco, Wash. then across Col. R (Columbia River) to Kennewick, then to Richlands, a gov’t “mush room” town of 20,000, where they work with elements of atom bombs etc.  Still a big military secret too.  Every person in there has sorta signed his life away because they signed papers that if they were found guilty of divulging any military secrets they would receive a life sentence without a trial.  Kay’s mother was visiting there too and so we went back to Pasco and got a cabin for the night. Not too good (3.00) compared with last nites cabin.