We stayed at the Shilo Inn Suites which included breakfast in their restaurant. After breakfast we continued along the Columbia River Gorge until I-84 veered off to the southeast. We continued through the much drier eastern Oregon until we came to the Blue Mountains which are not blue but a richly forested green. Climbing over the summit (about 4100 feet elevation), we were glad not to be worrying about whether the Passat would have been overheating again. The drive through the Blue Mountains was very pretty. Dropping out of the Blue Mountains, the blue skies and clouds disappeared in a hazy, smokey condition. The smokey condition continued into Idaho all the way to Mountain Home. The smoke we passed through was blown across from fires in Oregon. We stopped in Mountain Home and had a salad for dinner.
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