After a fairly long day yesterday, today was easy riding, 49 miles in perfect weather, and only 700' of climbing all day. We followed Rte 30 about 20 miles to Portland. Getting through the city, even with our detailed route maps, supplemented by Google, was confusing. But we stumbled our way through the only large city on the whole route, and headed east along the Columbia River, with views of snowy Mt. Hood ahead. We rode past the Portland airport where we'd flown in on Tuesday. Lunch was corn dogs at a trailer park cafe, but don't pity us: read on. Reaching Troutdale, the western end of the Historic Columbia River Highway, by a slightly different route than the one suggested, we checked into a Comfort Inn and signed up for their rewards program (we'll run up a lot of points this summer). After a shower and a nap, we walked up the hill to the town's one street. Mostly craft displays, but there was one excellent Italian restaurant. We enjoyed a good meal and a bottle of Montepolciano, and retired for the evening refreshed and happy.
It looks like we'll have a short days in the week ahead, dictated by the space between places we can stop, and at least one camping night.
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