Ack! Ack! Ack! I’ve been so busy doing da 365 days da kines that I totally forgot that I left you guys stranded just past the Blue Bridge in Kennewick!! And before that I left you stranded in the Palouse! Let’s see if I can’t get you back to Damascus during the next few days. And I still have our 2013 trip to document! Sheesh.

It’s not surprising that there were so many wind turbines along here. It can get very windy!

We’ll be getting onto Interstate 84 when we get to Umatilla.

Here are some more photos along Highway 82.

Ānuenue!!

Here’s a Google map showing where we were.

We’re getting close to the interstate here.

Then we saw more blue sky.

I do like driving along Highway 14 on the Washington side of the Columbia River, but by now we were really tired and wanted to get home. There are lots of tunnels along Highway 14, and the train tracks run right along it in places…. that’ll be for another time.

And here it is…the Columbia River!

We’re just about to cross the river. It seems like a short time ago when we crossed it going the other way.

We made it!!

We’re now heading makai on Interstate 84. We’re about 3 1/2 hours from home at this point. Here’s a map of where we’ve been so far. We took Highway 730 to meet up with I-84.

It’s interesting to see what it looked like from above.

Crossing the Umatilla River, which runs south for a long time.

We saw this house along the freeway.

Here’s the junction; we’ll be going makai for sure.

This is what the junction looks like on the map. I’m so grateful I can use Google maps to do dis kine stuffs.

And here we go… towards the last “steps” of our journey.

We end this chapter near Boardman

Whew. One more chapter, and then we’ll be home. Mahalo nui for being so patient with me along this journey alla way from 2010!