Day 18 - Walla Walla to Portland

Up early and working on the internet to book my acomodation for tonight.  I have decided to drive right through to Portland today. I will arrive back there a day early but it will allow me to do some laundry and to see some of the city before I have to hand back the rental car.

Dove out of town about 10am and headed west and the turned north to follow the Columbia River up towards Pasco. 

I was driving towards the last casino in Washington that I have to visit. It was to far south to drive there when I was heading east earlier but now is only two hours drive so I can tick it off my list.

                    

On the way there I saw again the snow covered mountain tops but this time from a different angle. It is so different to see this in the middle of summer.

I finaly arrived at the Yakama Legends Casino and visited the Players Club to get a card. They also gave you coupons for various activities. I used the $5.00 coupon on the blackjack table and also visited the buffet for lunch to use the $2 off voucher. This made the meal only $6.99. For a buffet lunch it was real good. There were more choices than most buffets I have had that were worth much more than this one.

Was able to pick up two more chips for the collection which brings it to a total of  77 chips from 34 casinos.

From there I started driving south towards Oregon. The road was only one lane each way and it was up and down hills and mountains again and with a couple of slow vehicles in front of me it was slow going for a while. There were a lot of wind farms along the way also.

I crossed back over the Columbia River at Biggs and then followed the Interstate along the side of the river down to Portland. It was very windy coming down the valley along the river.

I drove into Portland about 6pm and drove straight to the Ramada Airport hotel and booked in. The hotel is very dated and turns out only to be a hotel affiliated with the Ramada chain. It was interesting to see this sign behind the counter.

I had some dinner in the bar at the hotel and looked out a few places to visit tomorrow before having to take the car back at 5pm.