Heading to Bend, OR and the Columbia River

Bend, OR                        (Click on Pictures to Enlarge)

I can't believe it's been a week since my last blog, but thinking back there just hasn't been a lot of "blog worthy" things to talk about. We really didn't do a whole lot in La Grande, OR last week other than some rig maintenance and domestic chores.  Not really blog stuff.

On Tuesday we picked up and headed west toward a Thousand Trails campground called Bend-Sun River TT.  The campground is located about 10 miles south of Bend, OR.  We had about 330 miles to make Tuesday, so we opted to stay on Interstate 84 for the first half of the trip.

Pretty easy drive, but I-84 is windier than many interstates.  The best part was that we ran parallel to the Columbia River for the last part of the drive along the interstate.  We stopped at a pullout about midway thru the trip which overlooked the river.  There are lots of wind turbines high on the cliffs.

Here's a picture looking back east along the river.

As we got closer to our exit to head south toward Bend, we observed more wind turbines high on the cliffs on the Washington State side of the river.

This might be as close as we get go Mt. Hood as our stay is pretty far south in Oregon, but it was still impressive some 50 miles in the distance.





I'll speak about our campground and stay at Thousand Trails Bend/Sun River in our next blog because we haven't had a chance to take any pictures or explore yet.

As always, thanks for stopping by to take a look!