Tuesday, January 21, 2014: trip to Hood River Valley

On Tuesday, Skyler had work, Otis had school, and Amon took Jade to Mount Hood to play in the snow.  So LaWanda, Papa Tom, and I headed to the Hood River valley in search of apples and pears from the local orchards.  We stopped for lunch at the Big Horse Restaurant in Hood River.

Although the town is named Hood River, and the Hood River is nearby, that's the Columbia River outside the Big Horse Restaurant.

Hood River is a hilly town.  Here's a short cut from one street to another.

The Big Horse Restaurant was a dance hall back in the day.  After the building burned down around 1975, the owner reconstructed a duplicate of the original structure.

We stopped at an orchard outside Hood River.  Alas, pear and apple trees are bare in January.  But Papa Tom found some local apples at a grocery store a few miles up the road.

Around the bend, we took in a wine tasting at the Cathedral Ridge vineyard.