We left the school this morning about 9am and headed west toward US395 to go south toward Oregon. We had a little head wind and a bit from the south but not very much.

We traveled down US 395 until we found the fruit market we stopped at on the way up and got some good things to eat. Even some delicious red raspberries, maybe my favorite of all the berries. They had piles of corn, buy one dozen and get another dozen free. We saw thousands of acres of sweet corn in the field and being trucked into the processing plant, even on Sunday. I guess you have to process it when it is ready.

We are currently parked alongside the Columbia River just below the John Day Dam and Locks. We have not actually seen the locks in operation but did see one tug and barge going up river just above the dam and one that had just cleared the locks as we pulled in to our parking spot alongside the river.

There is a rail road just above us between us and I84 and a rail road across the river in Washington as well as sr14 that goes along the north side of the Columbia River Gorge. We have had several trains go through, so it might be an interesting night to sleep. I do not expect much traffic on the river until tomorrow.

Across the river on the top of the hills/mountains thee are hundreds of wind turbines that are making good use of the wind coming up the river gorge.

Tomorrow we will work our way to Portland and down I5