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Home is wherever I’m with you

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Finished up John Day Fossil and traveled to 10 Mile Campground outside of Boise in the Boise National forest.

Lovely evening. We parked our camp chairs in the creek and stuck our feet in the creek. The temp got to 104 on the way through Boise and I was happy to have Frank as our travel horse (sorry Veronica…)

Idaho tonight! Going, going, Ore-gone

  • I posted this yesterday, but it cracks me up.
  • Blue basin area
  • Looks like brains, but it’s clays tone
  • Up the valley blue basin
  • Along trail they had fossils
  • Foree Area, sculpted green Claystone
  • Foree loop, flood of fire trail. Basalt top.
  • Dayville sign posing with my taco
  • Will you just chillax?
  • Campground chef
  • Ringo and George showing off 10 mile site.

John Day Painted Fossil Beds

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Left Tumalo Falls heading east towards the Clyde Holiday campground. Hit the John Day Fossil Beds on the way. Really enjoyed the painted hills, but since it was 100 degrees, we waited to go to Sheep Rock for an early morning hike.

The Austin girls will be happy to note that we did make it inside to see the visitor center video, but we had to do it in shifts since we had Ringo. This shows our dedication to both Ringo and the movie. And as George observed probably because one of us can’t have more facts than the other person…

  • Painted hills
  • It was hot on the board walk on Ringos feet
  • Ha.
  • We got a nice camp spot with great connectivity so George got a few hours of shady work. I tested the ac which works fantastic!
Heres the inside of the T@g. It’s much bigger than it looks on the video. The bed appears to be a king.

Newberry National Volcanic Monument

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When we got to the first information sign at the Big obsidian flow there were three boys (age ~ 5-6) pointing at the volcano and making explosion noises. I totally agree, Volcanos are cool!

Newberry is a shield volcano that basically did the same thing as crater lake, exploded then fell in on itself. It had two lakes instead of one with a huge obsidian lava field.

  • East Lake coast
  • Obsidian lava field
  • Informative walk
  • Super slick and hot
  • Pumice and
  • Panarama
From crater base

We also took the 4×4 to the rim edge. The view from the top was even cooler. The Ridge can be seen, as well as a cinder cone (2 actually). 2 lakes (East and Paulina), and the lava flow. We had lunch right there on the truck bed.

  • Obsidian from top
  • View from top
  • If you don’t think that’s cool, you’re wrong.

We stopped at Pauline falls on the way to the Lava Cast Forest. These are hard to see in the pictures. Think slow lava building a wall around a tree and leaving a Hollow trunk mold. I jumped in one for size.

  • I am a tree
  • Look, one arm lifts

Then we stopped by 2 other breweries for samples. 10 Barrel and Sunriver.

  • 10 Barrel has a set sampler… So we got 16 Oz samples.
  • George excited about sampling ipas

Back at the campground we saw this weird camping dump truck. Where do you need that sort of equipment? My t@g was embarrassed for him.

Bird & bees, Smith Rock, Bend

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We stayed the day at the Sister’s municipal park campground. I was throwing the ball for Ringo in the park while George was working. I looked up to see a deer about the same time that Ringo saw the deer and he proceeded to chase the deer across the road and get lost. I was frantically searching along the creek and George got in the Taco (Tacoma) and went searching in the neighborhood. This went on for about an hour. I thought the little asshole was a goner forever. George finally went back to the camp ground to put away any valuables and found Ringo humping the neighbors dog. That’s the one thing I wasn’t expecting to be happy seeing Ringo doing.

Next stop petsmart for a dog tag. George asked the clerk if we needed to stick under Ringo’s skin so he would be microchipped? The clerk thought George was a dumbass & George thought the joke was really funny (typical).

Getting on with our day… We knew that we’d see a big rock but had no idea we would get these views of the volcanos. These pictures don’t do it justice.

  • Smith Rock with volcanos
  • George likes to point them out
Problem was we did this hike in 95 degrees… So, then we put our fannies in the deschutes river. (for those of you following… This is the second time we camped next to the Deschutes.) George speculates the water is about 2 weeks from the Pacific. Who knows? I kind of want to find out. Maybe we should put some food coloring in it…?
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  • Tumalo State Park/ deschutes river
  • Boneyard sampling
  • Pacific Pizza
We went to Boneyard brewery and then to Pacific pizza and beer where they gave George a caldera of bacon on the side.
This picture of beer and the tag is for Joe & Merrydeath. We also liked vicious mosquito. Other than a great name, the beer was delicious.

Volcanos & Sisters OR

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Pulled into our campsite, dropped and then took an amazing drive along the lava flows and volcanos!

  • View from sisters.
  • Begin Lava flows
  • Dee Wright observatory
  • Windows to each volcano
  • Coolest observatory ever.
  • Proxy falls on Hwy 242
  • Proxy
  • Sahalie
  • Koosah
Sahalie and koosah falls

George and I saw some guy running up the path in a wet suit and we thought it was weird. Then about 15 minutes later we heard yelling from the top of the falls and George turned around to see this kid splashing into the water after a cliff jump. I just got his picture coming out of the water. Note self. .. When you see someone in a wet suit at a water fall wait around and pay attention. You might see something insane. Maybe we missed this :