Our trip with John, our tour guide, was fantastic.
We were picked up right outside of our hotel and pretty much immediately John was telling us interesting stories and details about the city and buildings we were driving past. Once all of our co-day trippers were picked up we head out toward Mt Hood.
This part could have been really boring because it's a lot of highway driving to get away from the city but John kept it entertaining. We learned a lot about the geography of Oregon and the history of Portland, the surrounding area, the historic highway, and more. As you can see from my photos, we stopped at a number of very pretty spots to see waterfalls or lookout over the river.
John had a lot of good recommendations for food when we stopped in Hood River.
We got lucky with weather and on our trip up Mt Hood we were able to pop out above the clouds and get some absolutely beautiful scenes.
Overall it was a really cool trip with lots of great sights and a wonderful tour guide who was personable and knowledgeable.