Freezing morning, when we left Quincy Lakes we saw car wreck, well not wreck, car was probably ok but it was complete disassembled (wheel missing, etc...), it wasn't here yesterday, so while we slept (quite far from that spot) somebody was very busy. We also spotted small rattlesnake, roadkill unfortunately. From George we biked on Freeway # 90, very busy road with many trucks, but with good shoulder. Luckily we didn't spend a lot of time on this road. There was one nice viewpoint to Columbia River Canyon (flooded by Wanapum Lake/Dam), then crazy downhill ride and through the bridge (we were lucky because for a while there were no trucks).
Gingko Petrified Forest was very interesting, but without forest, all tree trunks are buried deeply in the basalt lava underground, only a few is lock in the cages as if it is in zoo, probably the biggest and the best petrified trees you can see in front of souvenir shop, close to Visitor Center. But desert around was amazing, cloudy day slowly changed to clear blue sky, wind was blowing into our faces. Nice, crystal afternoon and evening, but also very cold. And we had to climbed quite high hills. It was long uphill ride in the golden light and fresh wind. When we got to the top of the hills, sun was just sinking down into the clouds, somewhere behind Cascades Mountains. Downhill ride was much colder and in the dark. The Owl was looking at us and we were looking at it. Two intruders breaking the dark with weak light beams of their headlamps.
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