We ate our food and hoped that it would last until the next time we ate...especially Ben, my fat kid. We thanked the gal and went upstairs to shower and pack up all of our stuff. We made sure not to leave anything behind.
Once we had everything packed up, Ben left the key on the desk and we loaded up the car as best as we could...especially with my flowers inside the vase, we had to keep it upright. During breakfast we decided to check into our next bed and breakfast just so we knew where it was and we didn't know where the day would take us (we really didn't want to check in really late at night.)
The first time we drove by we missed it mostly because we didn't know where to park plus traffic kinda hindered us from slowing down properly. Ben called to make sure we had the right house, she stood outside to let us know where to park. We got out and introduced ourselves. She took us inside and explained all the rules, showed us around the house and took us up to our room. She had to run to a meeting so she handed us our key and told her thank you. Soon after we got into the car and headed on our own journey.
We stopped by the sports store in town there, Ben found a pair of hiking pants since he didn't own anything like that...plus he dripped tacos on his jeans the day before. He found some nice gray colored ones that showed off his butt. Haha. After purchasing pants, we got back onto Oak Street.
We followed Oak Street until it turned into an interchange to Hwy 35. We thought, why not? Let's see where this goes. We knew part of this road was the fruit loop. We stopped several times along the way to get caches. Majority of them were a series by Team ALE, a group of Oregon cachers who put out hundreds along the roads to Mount Hood. About a year ago, I was going to come out here with Uncle Bob to grab a bunch of them...it didn't work out with our schedule. We did about ten of the LV (Lower Valley) series (GC34BQE).
We stopped at the FoxTail Cider to try some cider event though we were there to find a cache we couldn't find. The cider was pretty good.
We grabbed a few more before we entered a small town called Odell. There, we found one called William's Place (GC1YHV1) and Ben enjoyed it because it was a firefighter themed one. It honored fallen brothers at a really nicely taken care of memorial.
We drove around town a bit trying to figure something out for a late lunch/early dinner but the town was so small it hardly had anything but a grocery store, a school and a couple of run down gas stations. We found a couple more before trying to head back to Hood River.
I told Ben that we would find one more, that one more took us to a cluster of Pine Trees, to a cache called Pine Needles (GC5DZ7A). At first my GPS took me to the wrong tree I soon corrected my direction which led us to the correct tree and found it right away.
Ben noticed the sticker inside the lid, Sawtooth Roadhouse. Hmm, maybe we should go there for food? Let's do it! We plugged in the address and off we went...the wrong way! Haha. We were soon back on the right track and headed south on Hwy 35. If it wasn't raining and clear outside we would have had a great view of Mount Hood in front of us.
We arrived at our destination and pulled into the parking lot of the restaurant. From the outside it looked like the normal dive bar motif and once we went inside...same. We were the only people inside besides the workers and maybe one or two locals. We looked at the menu and decided we wanted pizza. Ben ordered a beer and I got a soda. We wanted meat on our pizza so we went with the All-star. We talked about some random things and it arrived!
It was the best pizza ever! It was homemade and fresh out of the oven. Our waiter/owner was a little weird but we made his day by coming into the restaurant and having pizza. We took the rest to go and headed back up Hwy 35 to go back to town. We really didn't have a plan on what we were going to do but decided to go with the flow.
We stopped at Mark Hatfield State Park Mosier Twin Tunnels State Park to grab one. We didn't want to pay the $5 fee so we hurried to grab the ammo can (GC1YHVX) underneath the tree. Then we did some goofy pictures.
When we did get back to town we decided to park the car and walk around to all the shops that were still open. Yep, some of them were closed. With a small town like this it really didn't surprise me. We went into a book store and looked at all the weird stickers and such, then we walked across the street to a place called Doug's Hood River, a more outdoor sporting good store. We learned a bit more about snowboarding and the gear.
Then it started getting dark and that meant it was time for more breweries! We walked down to Columbia, found a cache that was nearby, 4th Street is Awesome! (GC48ZKT). Indeed...because beer is awesome!
Our first stop was the Double Mountain Brewery. I ordered the Hop Lava and Ben ordered the Morder Weiz. Both were really good. Our bartender messed up so he gave one of our beers to us for free. Instead of a $10.50 bill we only paid $5. There were lots of people in an out of this brewery...similar to the Full Sail brewery down the street. We hung out for about an hour and decided to move onto the next one across the freeway near the water.
Pfriem Family Brewers, was the other popular local brewery in the area. We got seated and our waitress came by to ask us our drink order. We decided to do the flights. The core flight and the seasonal flight for a total of 24 sample beers to try. It comes to about 2 1/2 pints each. As we tried them, Ben got hungry so we ordered the mac and cheese and fries just to soak up some of the beer. We did have to drive back to our bead and breakfast still. Once we finished our food and flights he wanted dessert for us to share, to top off our time spent in the Hood River together.
We paid, made our way outside and Ben had to play on the climbing wall. We found the nearest cache (GC35AGC) just because we could and went back to our car. We decided to go to Walmart down the road to get a case of water. Between being buzzed, had to use the bathroom and our phones being dead, we were in the store way too long. We figured ourselves out and went back to our place for the evening. Of course we used the jetted tub. It felt nice after being out in the cold all day. This is why I want a hot tub. We got all situated and fell asleep in our comfy bed.
Next Adventure: Farm Fresh Breakfast, Hiking, Waterfalls, Caching, Buffalo Wild Wings and the Trip Back Home
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