Friday, June 23rd, 2017….. Not much on the calendar for today. We need to
meet with our insurance agent but she hasn’t quite got everything ready for us
yet. So we decided to take a drive. We had wanted eventually to drive over to
Bend. It’s up and over the Cascades east of us about 120 miles. We’d been there before back in 2012 when we
visited with our friends Daryl and Glenda on the start of our 3 month trip
east. Plus we drove to Sisters back in 2013 when we did our 7 week Oregon trip.
We missed their famous annual quilt show but we saw a lot of the area. This time we took a different route (via
McKenzie Hwy 126). This route follows the McKenzie River up and over the
mountains. It also took us by the Leaburg house we had looked at and were interested
in before.
The drive is
pretty but it made us realize how isolated that place was out that busy road! We crossed over the Cascades and right before
we got to McKenzie Bridge, we ran into road paving. We sat for over 10 minutes waiting for the
escort to take us through! But no worries, we weren’t in a hurry. We eventually got into Sisters first but just
drove through. We’ll stop on the way
back. We drove the remaining 11 miles
and got into Bend and immediately got stuck in traffic! We spent 30 minutes
going one mile so we decided to stop for lunch.
We chose El Rodeo a place Daryl took us to last time we were there. I
remembered the food being excellent and it did not disappoint! Plus we got
their luncheon prices! After that we
cruised the town and then hit the local Walmart for a few things. Then we went
north up hwy 97 about 10 miles to Redmond.
We’d never been there before and wanted to see it. This city gets a lot
of rv rallies from various organizations and I can see why. They have a ton of
rv dealerships plus they have an expo center there that is very impressive and
that will hold 500+ rv’s. As a matter of
fact, The Good Sam Rally will be held there in August and our new Camping
Squares members, Jack and Jennifer, are planning on coming up (if you’re
reading this blog guys – get with us and set up a visit to our home while
you’re in the area!). We took the road from there and drove back over to
Sisters and stopped at a gift shop we visited once before. Lydia was hoping to find a decorative item we
had seen before but didn’t buy. No luck. We also hit a Christmas Shop outside
of Vida as well. No purchases there either. But the drive was pretty. We
decided that since we had lunch out we didn’t need to stop for dinner. When we got home I fixed grilled ham and
cheese sandwiches as a light dinner. Pretty good. I walked the park (new folks
coming in for the weekend) and then we watched taped programs and then called
it a night.
Saturday, June 24th, 2017…..
As
I said before we don’t do much on the
weekends. We leave shopping and such to
the folks who work during the week. But
today we did hit Target and Bed Bath & Beyond, looking for split king
sheets for our new bed. We are going
back to the mattress place and get one set at ½ price but we wanted to see what
other stores have. We stopped at
Firehouse Subs for lunch. This has been my favorite sub shop for a while so I’m
happy to find them here in the area. We
got home and went onto the internet and ordered the sheets from Walmart. We’ll still go check out Mattress Firm later
for their sheets. We rested for the day and then Lydia heated up the rig by
baking a chicken noodle casserole. It was worth it though! Extra cheesy and
very yummy! After that, we walked dinner
off and then came back to watch tv until bedtime.
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