Road Trip - Day 14 - Bend to Eugene
10:00 a.m. 45 degrees. Raining
For some reason, I just could not sleep last night and for five hours I lay awake. But no hurry to get on the road today so I was able to sleep in. Our journey today is only 128 miles.
It is not a very nice day. When we look out the window it was overcast. I went across to the front desk to get a newspaper and some of the complimentary breakfast and it was drizzling. As Tom was loading the suitcases into the car, it was raining.
We fueled up with gas. In Oregon you do not pump your own gas. We asked why at the gas station and were told that it a) it provides employment and b) a kid pumping his own gas blew himself up and since then the law was changed. I’m sure there must be more to the decision.
We are soon outside Bend and traveling north on Highway 20 towards Sisters. The town is named after the three mountain peaks nearby – North Sister, Middle Sister and South Sister or affectionately called Faith, Hope and Charity. The mountain we saw yesterday with a little bit of snow on it was South Sister and it is now covered with snow. The scenery is green pastures and farmland. Very pleasant after our horrendous trip yesterday.
Sisters was a cute little town but we did not stop. At least it has stopped raining now.
The area round Suttle Lake was thick pine forest but with deciduous trees amongst them which were showing their Fall colors. Parts of the forest though have been devastated by fire. At the top of the Santiam Pass, elevation 4,817, there was snow on the ground. The scene looked like a Christmas card with the all the pine trees covered in snow. Even the burnt parts looked better.
October 10 2007 | Further Afield | No Comments »
