The Columbia River makes a U-shaped turn after passing the Tri-Cities (WA) area and heading west to the Pacific, still hundreds of miles away. Here it is unfettered and wide. Add the winds that narrow down through the Columbia Gorge to these waters and you have turbulent waves as large as the ocean swells. Few settlements grace the shores, either, except for rows of vineyards that stretch almost to the water's edge making gardens out of the eastern Washington and Oregon desert-like lands. From a boat I found this stretch lonely but dramatic.
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