First part of trip is heading to the Gorge Amphitheatre for Jack Johnson concert. This is just a nice road shot. I love these hills. I think we are somewhere an hour or so before Leavenworth. This is the ride from Wenatchee to the Gorge Amphitheatre ... in George. Hot and desert like. Hot hot hot!!! You'll never guess where we are ... :) There were more people there than we expected. We didn't realize that Jack Johnson was so popular. We love his music though so shouldn't be surprised, I suppose. :D Just the view around us. And a view of us. Ha ha We love love LOOOVE this concert venue! OK, yes we are quite far back. We arrived a little later than we should have. The gates opened at 5pm and we should have arrived at 4:30, but the ride took a long time and we needed a short rest in Wenatchee hotel. The sound quality was as spectacular as the view, though, and we still loved it. Now it's the next day and we are headed over to McMinnville (area). This is a lovely canyon ride Clint found to avoid the main highways. It was gorgeous. Can you see the peekaboo of the wind farm blades? I suppose that the wind farm machines are ugly, but somehow I am obsessed with them. They give me a fantasy-sci-fi novel feeling and awe me. Still the canyon ride. This is the best part. So this is the B and B we stayed in near McMinnville. It's GRAIN SILOS. They've finished the insides. There are 5 suites. We stayed in the 'Nubian" suite ... top middle floor. The stairs up to our room. Our room. The view from our room. (Oops the camera focussed on the screen ... not the view.) This is from restaurant Agrivino. It is on the BnB property. The chef is from Italy. He and his wife run the restaurant on a reservation only basis and make everything from scratch and from locally grown. Anything they can't make or grow ... they import from Italy. It was fabulous. We ordered the Prosciutto salad, the Bolognese gnocchi and the Zola gnocchi. Then we also had the Prosciutto pizza ... and finished with desert of homemade mint-stracciatella gelato. Very fat-making, but wonderful. Yum. So delicious! Cheers! OK, next day ... we went RIDING Tennessee Walking horses from winery to winery to winery. Wow! I rode that palomino. His name was Kahlua. We all thought his name should be Kahlua AND CREAM. LOL The best views on earth always include a horse's ears! Clint looks quite comfortable. His horse, Chipper, was adorable and had such a kind eye. He was very well behaved for Clint. What a lovely area to ride in. And yes, we are riding to a winery for a tasting. Neat-o! Selfie! Clint is 3 horses behind me. The other person in the shot is just a random person on the ride. It was a nice and friendly chatty group. Here we are all mounted up and getting ready to set off for winery #3. I am sitting on my mount. Heading back to the stable now. Boy! Was that fun!! Thanks to Clint for finding this for me and my birthday! Just a quickie shot of the Carlton grain elevator. It's quite a pretty one. I know I know, my shot is crooked. It was a hasty shot taken from the motorbike. And now we are headed home ... along the seaside route, to avoid the heat inland. The bridge in the distance is the Astoria bridge. It is REALLY long and one of my favourites. I think it's quite pretty. On the bridge. It's about 5 km long. You can hardly see the seagull but it was matching our speed along the rail! It looked huge to us! The wind was so strong, that the bird barely had to flap. It was just riding the wind-gusts going along the bridge -- really fast! :) And we are now staying at the Seaquest Motel in South Bend Washington. We go home tomorrow, again coastal route. It will be a lovely ride, but one we've done many times before and I won't likely take any photos. :D
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