We haven't done much exploring yet except finding our way around town but we have come across some beautiful landscape.  We wanted to go hiking but most of the trails are still closed until end of June due to snow.  There is still about 4 feet on them we are told.  Mt Bachelor doesn't open until then either.  Who knew we would have to wait due to snow - lol.
The weather has been great.  It is nice and dry and pleasantly cool.  I had to buy a nice bulky sweatshirt :)


Tomorrow we will drive up to Sisters and hopefully get some good photographs of the snow covered mountains.


Here are a couple of shots we took while having lunch on the river.  Take note of the dog in the canoe/kayak :)

Mr. B took a picture of the mountains as we were driving downtown.  Hope to get closer shots when we head up to Sisters.

The flowers that we have seen walking around town have been amazing.  They are so vibrant and large.  I hope to find the wildflowers soon.

We have arrived!

Hello from Bend, OR!

Well, we have finally arrived (actually at 1:30 PST) after 1950 miles.  We could not have asked for a better journey across Oregon and that we had great weather all the way.

While I drove this

Mr. B did this 

He has a great little command station set up and didn't miss a beat.  He was connected all the way with his laptop, cell phone, heavy duty headset, IP phone, air card, cell phone booster and antenna.  

No report on Idaho.  Why you may ask?  Nothing but a big YAWN!  The only sighting was a tumbleweed or two.

Today, we captured a few shots of just peaceful scenery.  US20 was very winding the first half through mountains and valleys and then just straightaway on the second half.

Who knew there were Volcano's in Oregon?

... and today when we arrived at the RV Resort we met our second angel Bob.

When we checked in they asked us if we have done much backing up with the RV and Mr B. and I looked at each other with the thought of "uh-oh" so I replied, no not really, just into our storage area.  Well, the spot they assigned to us is one of the hardest to get into because it is at a dead end and since we were so long we could not pull up to it, so....  we had to back up the entire way down the road and then into the spot and with Bob's guidance, I did it!!  If you look at this picture, way down the center you will see green tennis courts and that is where I had to start backing up and we are the 8th site down.  

Thank you angel Bob!  I think I heard a bell ring :)

Can't wait to start exploring.  

More to come!

 

Declo, ID

Hello from Declo, Idaho

We left Fort Bridger, WY around 7:45AM in 33 degrees (burrrr) and arrived today at the Village of Trees RV resort which is very charming and yes, there are lots of trees.  We can see Snake River from one side of our RV and horses on the other side... ahhhhh, just lovely.


I wanted to share a couple of photos with you of our journey today across Utah which was so beautiful, but my camera man had technical difficulties :) and the card was blank so I thought I would post one from our previous journey for you to enjoy.


Yesterday we encountered our first angel named Coty.  He was tall, thin wearing a neon green T-shirt and had a construction worker's tan that was so golden.  You just couldn't see his wings but we know they were there.


When we arrived at our campground in Fort Bridger, Mark checked us in and there was one older gentleman in the office.  We parked on our site and started our usual setup only to find that the flashing on one side of the RV was hanging completely down and all of the screws were missing.  It was so windy traveling across Wyoming (30+ mph winds) that it apparently pulled it down and that there was probably just a screw or two holding it up originally.


I went to the office about 15 minutes later and now there were 3 gentlemen in the office.  I asked if they had anyone who could repair the RV after telling them what had happened and the first answer was no and the office manager was going to send me to the hardware store about 10 miles away.  (Fort Bridger has a population of about 400 so we are talking tiny town).  Coty then stood up and said let me take a look and came to our RV and said he had screws and a gun and he could fix it which he did and even added more screws than there were originally.  We tried to pay him because he had no idea what an angel he has been and he downright refused.  We let him know that he was our angel and could not thank him enough.   


Oh yeah, one other thing about this, Coty had just gotten to the office because the road work he was doing, the machine had just broke down and was going to take about a day to fix.  He said he wondered what he was going to do the rest of the day... God sent him at the right time just for us!!  Don't you just love when these things happen?


Tomorrow morning we will start our journey to Caldwell, ID.
Happy trails.