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Now that you drive a Scion, let's pretend we didn't meet @ McMenamin's Cornelius Pass Roadhouse.

The Dalles is on the hot-dry high desert end of the Columbia River Gorge. Yes, the town is small, BUT...

Then you're only 87 miles from an urban fix in Portland, complete with Powell's Books, Movie Madness and a dragstrip and road race course at Ptld Intrntl Raceway; really close to downhill skiing at Mt. Hood Meadows (though not as powdery as the Wasatch Range); 20 miles from world class windsurfing at Hood River; less than an hour drive to the wild hot springs on the Wind River, close to Carson WA; really close to having the Pacific Crest Trail all to yourself on Mt. Adams; close to white water rafting and flyfishing on the Des Chutes River; a survivable drive to Seattle for the Seahawks, Mariners, Boeing Museum, and Music Experience museum; drive a little further and you're in Vancouver BC or on a ferry to Victoria. Did you want mountain bike trails or paved road bike trips or both at Mt. Hood? Water skiing on the Columbia or head south to Lake Billy Chinook, west of Madras. The hairpins on US 197 would make you miss your CSVT.

OK, The Dalles gets some real ice storms in the winter. Maybe you should stay the hell away. You'd hate it there.