just for review ... http://pghbridges.com/basics.htm
45 minutes from ME and I have not been back there since around 1977.
Bad Me,Bad Me.It is really beautiful up there though.
FYI, there are quite a few fascinating things in the Columbia gorge to see if you ever make it out this way, All within a one hundred mile or so stretch:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryhill_Museum_of_Art
http://www.legendsofamerica.com/wa-stonehenge.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dalles_Dam
http://www.nwp.usace.army.mil/Locations/ColumbiaRiver/Bonneville.aspx
http://www.usbr.gov/pn/grandcoulee/
http://www.cbr.washington.edu/hydro/johnday
http://www.ccrh.org/comm/river/dams3.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge_of_the_Gods_(geologic_event)
HAVE FUN GANG,Welcome to my neighborhood.
Forgot one,heh:
http://vistahouse.com/history/the-vista-house-story/