Submitted by Tom Camp on Sun, 01/16/2011 - 12:17am
Last weekend Adriane and I drove over to Astoria to spend the weekend in a yurt at Ft. Stevens State Park. Saturday morning we woke bright and early, loaded up Betsy with the camping gear and headed, well, we headed north. We decided to take the I-5 route into Washington and then to cut over to the coast along the Columbia River gorge. It was a typical Pacific Northwest winter's day; rainy and cool. The Columbia gorge is quite beautiful, but definitely bears the signs of clear cutting. After a little more than an hour of driving we stopped for a little lunch at the Berry Patch restaurant, a little east of Westport, Oregon. There we got quite the lesson on the history of everyone's favorite berry, the Marionberry, as well as a decent patty melt and fries.
