The Columbia River Gorge

Day ?.  Heading east from Portland up the Columbia River Gorge.  
The shore to the left is Washington, to the right is Oregon.  We 
kept to the Oregon side, following the Columbia River Highway, 
a segment of Route 30 engineered as part of the WPA to feature
the natural beauty of the gorge.  It banks up past broad vistas, 
scoops into deep primordial forest, tiptoes under weeping 
overhangs, sneaks past mighty waterfalls, and tunnels through 
great jutting elbows of mossy rock.  Further east the land dries out, 
the grass golden, the landscape marked by large-scale energy 
projects: several intimidating dams and ridge after ridge of 
churning wind turbines.

Multnomah Falls, which our Portland pals 
scoffed at us for planning to visit.  It was 
indeed crowded and we were indeed tourists.