Daily mileage=321;Trip total=4940Today we went down to Crater Lake National Park, still in Oregon. Crater Lake is a volcano that erupted 7,000 years ago and then collapsed. Over the next 5+thousand years water collected to create the second deepest lake in the Western hemisphere. The water is a beautiful shade of blue.
(For those of you who think Rich has eliminated me, since you never see me in photos, here's one from today.) There is a rim road that you travel around stopping at various points to view the lake and/or hike trails down to lake. However, today they only had about a mile of the 30 mile road open because of snow. We not talking a couple of inches here. It's more like several feet of snow left from the 40 feet they had this winter! Needless to say we didn't do any hiking up there. The scenery was still gorgeous and we're certain that a summer visit would be w
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onderful. We had dinner in "downtown" Eugene which is really a university town. The campus is not huge (about 8 X 8 blocks long) but typical college area. It looked like a pretty nice place to go to school, as is the area (not quite sure what the UoO is known for??) We had Thai food that was really good and while we walked around their revitalized streets we came across the city's "duck exhibit." It's similar to the painted cows or painted ponies exhibits done in many other cities. The university (and maybe even the city's) mascot is the DUCK. So of course they have painted ducks. Here's Rich with "Ritz Quaker." Is that hysterical or what?!?
By the way, the University of Oregon's song is "Mighty Oregon" and I'm thinking their mascot is duck(s)...
By the way, the University of Oregon's song is "Mighty Oregon" and I'm thinking their mascot is duck(s)... Anyway, we drove through a lot of Oregon today and it was beautiful. Just as you would expect with tall, old pines and great mountains (some with snow still on the tops) and raging rivers and beautiful clear blue lakes. You really feel like you're in the northwest of the US. It's great.
By the way, we stopped at yet another micro brewery, the Steelhead Brewing Company. They had good beer and have won 22 awards over the last 16 years. They also have places in CA but started here. All of you craft beer folks would love it out here. Most small towns have several breweries to pick from.
Tomorrow we're on to the coast of Oregon and Portland.
Love & Joy, Mare & Rich
4 comments:
Hmmm...ducks. Sounds like good Chinese food! Glad to see you haven't been eliminated and that Rich is really a mystery writer doing the blog. Oh yes, I did finally make it out of Columbus. For all of you Ohio folks...is there a law that Jersey Girls are not allowed to leave Columubus Ohio without hangin' in the airport?!! Just wanted to share my exciting travels.
Enjoy!
Susan
Hey - how's the traffic been while u have been traveling? I would guess most of the highways/interstates are pretty wide-open? And how about the cities - big cities - are they as bad as NYC? Anyhow, great to see you Mare (& as always Rich). How many painted duck exhibits were there?
TTYL
Love Ya's Linda
YAY! A Mare Pic! You both look great! Are you losing weight with all of the exercise you've been getting?
Miss You,
Tommy
Susan, Sorry you have to deal with Columbus! What more can we say? It's not on our trip list this time around.
Lin, Traffic is great. In SLC we hit some ona Friday night, so we just turned around and didn't go anywhere until Saturday morning. (The flexibility of not having to be anywhere is great!) Other than that, we've really been lucky.
Out west they do 70-75 miles per hour as the standard. Less people make it easier to do. We rarely see a cop and thankfully we use cruise control a lot!!
Tommy, Yes, a rare photo of Mare. No I wouldn't say we're losing a lot of weight on this trip. Not that we eat that much but WW wouldn't be happy with all of our choices. As Rich declares, "If we weigh what we did when we left, we'll be doing great!"
Love,
Mare
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