Sunday, June 08, 2008

Albany, OR 6-8-08

Yesterday I didn’t blog because Larry was backing up a bunch of stuff from the computer onto our external hard drive and that took until bedtime.

This first picture was the view from my window and the following pastoral views were all taken on our morning walk up Stateline Road. The lavender colored flower is a close-up of a Lilac….shame you can’t smell them…heavenly! The white ones…I don’t know what they are but they grow all over the place around this part of Oregon.

This morning…another lovely day….we hit the road at 8:30 after dumping the tanks. We headed north on 395 and then caught 31 at Valley Falls. It is lusciously green through this area right now. We stopped in Paisley and had our toast. Just before we hit highway 97 at noon I saw a Bald Eagle in the top of a pine tree being Secret Squirrel or something…all you could see was his huge white head…his body was down in the boughs. We also saw Pronghorn Antelope again today. We headed south on 97 caught county 61 at Crescent which took us to 58 west.

We have never been on highway 58…it is gorgeous. A couple of snow covered peaks and rivers and lakes and tall, tall trees…this last picture I took through our very dirty windshield so you could see how heavy the vegetation is along the highway. We stopped along Lookout Pt. Lake around 2 and had our dinner (which we do at lunch time now) and when we got back into the truck we had a message on our phone from someone who was in Bend…if they had just called a couple hours earlier we could have turned up that way and seen them!

Highway 58 hits I-5 south of Eugene at Goshen and from there we headed north to Albany. We arrived at Blue Ox RV at 3:20. We traveled 308 miles today. This is home for the next month.

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