Welcome to the Northwest
July 22nd 2011 Geo: 47.6353, -122.302Highway 84 runs alongside the Columbia River like a race dog chasing a fake rabbit. At Biggs Junction, where I originally crossed on my way to Granger, the surrounding landscape was dry and empty. Heading west toward the Pacific, the landscape almost changes by the minute, getting greener and greener, lush, thickly vegetated, to the point where, as you approach Portland,
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