Pioneer Girl

I-84

Pioneer GirlPhoto by Peg Willis

Peg Willis, Pioneer Girl: March 17, 2014

It's a stain on the rock at about the height of a car's windshield. Just past mm 91 (I-84, out of The Dalles) on the south side of the road. It is yellowish and looks like a pioneer girl in a bonnet with her head slightly bowed as if she's reading. There's a little shelf there in the rock, and someone puts a bouquet of plastic flowers there every spring, and they last ... well until they die a sad and tragic death. Makes it look like the girl is holding the flowers and smelling them.


Personal Communication. Peg Willis, March 17, 2014

July 10, 2020

I've had this placed between Biggs Junction and Rufus for a long time, and am keeping it here, but that doesn't quite match up with the mile marker Peg mentions above... I can't remember if I ever actually spotted this myself, and will need to look for it more carefully the next time I am out east!

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