{"id":9102,"date":"2023-04-25T12:30:40","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T19:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/day-21-3-weeks-on-the-road\/"},"modified":"2023-04-25T12:30:40","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T19:30:40","slug":"day-21-3-weeks-on-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/day-21-3-weeks-on-the-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 21 – 3 Weeks on the Road"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It\u2019s crazy to think that we\u2019ve been on the road for 3 entire weeks, as of today. So far we\u2019ve travelled about 9,000 km and by the time we make it home we should be close to 10,000 km. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We left the Pendleton KOA just after 9am and we were headed for Grand Mound, Washington. We planned to wrap up our trip with a night at the Great Wolf Lodge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As we left Pendleton, we had crazy headwinds and lots of clouds but as we carried on towards Portland, the clouds burned off but the wind intensified<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We drove along the Columbia River and noticed the incredible rock formations along the river; Jon and I pointed them out to the boys as looking fascinating and wondering what they were.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jude pipes up from the back seat and nonchalantly says, \u201cOh that\u2019s basalt.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What??? So I google and sure enough the Columbia River Basalt Group <\/a> is what we were looking at. Basalt is a dark, fine-grained volcanic rock that sometimes displays a columnar structure. (According to Wikipedia)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How did Jude know that? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gaming. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apparently, Basalt is a type of rock found in more than one game that he plays. It\u2019s been incredible to have this time together. There is so much that both boys have shared that I had no idea that they knew and lots of the information is stuff that I didn\u2019t even know. <\/p>\n\n\n\n