Our Travel Blog
In November of 1921, Charlie Sadilek was returning from goose hunting when he and another gentlemen took refuge in the Old Columbia River Highway twin tunnels during a snowstorm. For 9 days the stranded men cooked geese and camped out waiting for the road to be cleared. Today while hiking the old road, we found a stone carving they left in one of the tunnels. A cool piece of history preserved.
My Grandfather liked to go for “drives”. Kids in the back, adults in the front and off we’d go (an era before car seats and seatbelts). Up and over, around and about, this way and that through the hill country of northern New Jersey and Pennsylvania we went. Today, driving the Old Columbia Gorge Highway in Oregon reminded me of those trips, the twisty road, the old concrete bridges and guardrails, and the beautiful scenery. I think my Grandfather might have been traveling with us in the backseat enjoying the “drive”.
