Portland, Oregon VFRW meet up! June 13th

WOOOOOOO HOOOOOOO! I'M IN DA PIZZLE! PORTLAND THAT IS!!! Ok, I will stop yelling! Man, what a great time we have been having. Gonna try and do the gorge thing tomorrow, and maybe take a gander at downtown Portland if we have a chance.

Sounds like we are getting some more members joining for the dinner....that is sweet! arty2:

Sorry we cannot meetup RW....I was looking forward to meeting you in person.....always will be another time though!

Oh, and thanks to miss shorty for helping organize this. Even the gf is excited to go....amazing, because she thinks I waste so much time on here....she doesn't doesn't understand that I am trying to make the VFRW brotherhood even stronger... out:

hahaha....later gator!

 

YIKES!!! Thanks for the pictures RV...too many pics of my ugly mug though!

Here is some more of the dinner. A BIG thanks to LeeAnn (VFRShorty) for organizing all of this! It was really nice to meet everybody. Thanks to, JB, LeeAnn, Tommy & wife, Jay & wife, & Theresa for coming! Good food and great peeps! Always nice to put a name to a face! I will say one thing...you Oregon (PNW) folks have some BEAUTIFUL scenery!

From left (going clockwise) against the wall having drinks in the lounge. Johnny (JohnnyB), LeeAnn (VFRShorty), Theresa (tgreene5), Jay's wife, Jay (RVFR), Tommy (Tsunami_Tommy) & wife Becky, Jason's (derstuka) gf Sarah.


Same pic but with me in it.


Dinner table...Tommy's girl Becky figuring out how she is gonna get her leftover's home! :lol:


Dinner table...interesting how they wrap the leftover's into shapes like so.

 

Some more Oregon pics.

Recommended by LGN001. This is in Yreka, CA. Grandma's house is one of the best breakfast's I have ever had. :thumbsup: Thanks Dave.



Mt Shasta (CA)


Crater Lake....still a lot of snow, but not many people, and a BEAUTIFUL DAY!



This lodge was actually open!


Few duc's and some HOG's up there


Pictures do not do it justice




Rogue River


Camping at Lake Paulina (south of Bend, OR). Little did we know, the beautiful day would turn for the worse at 2am! A freezing and muddy mess!




Cool covered bridge



Rented some quads at the Oregon State Dunes in Florence, OR (on the coast). This was an absolute blast!











Heceta Head, Lighthouse. Very pretty...pictures didn't come out too well though.

 

More pics....

Tillamook cheese factory....I recommend this...good cheese, and grrrrrrrrreat ice cream! Tillamook, OR.




Columbia River Gorge Waterfall (forgot name, think it is Lato...something)



Wa-Kee-Na Falls


Bridal Veil Falls


Multnomah Falls.

View from top of falls


Looking down


Rainbow at bottom



Ok, I am tired of loading photos for now....I think some of you folks get an idea of the beautiful scenery there. BTW, we had sunny warm weather, or partly cloudy most of the time, but also, hit some rain, and a heavy snow storm coming from Bend OR near Mackenzie Pass while traveling to the coast.

 

few more pics..

Bonneville Dam


Salmon Ladder




Big ass sturgeon at the fish hatchery.





Japanese Garden, Portland. This was pretty cool, and so purty!




















Portland Rose Test Garden.





Arborterum/Viet. Memorial


View from downtown hotel room...Marriot.

 

No worries fellas. Had a great time up there.

Great meeting ya Jay! Thanks a lot for coming down. The gf (and myself) thought that was really cool of the both of you to come down to meet everybody. :thumbsup: