We left Salem and traveled over the mountains to the high desert of Bend, Oregon. We're parked among the trees (no satellite here) but have a beautiful backyard. The mountain on the left is Bachelor Mountain, then South Sister, and Broken Top.
We spent a day doing the Newbery National Volcanic Monument which encompasses the Lava River Cave, the Big Obsidian Flow, Paulina and East Lakes, crater buttes, and lava flows. It was fascinating to walk the mile through a solidified lava tube until the sand just filled it up. It was amazing to see the huge pile of obsidian that sparkled black glass everywhere. And the beds of rocky black lava that flowed for acres around small hills where the only trees grew was hard to imagine. I'd have pictures of all that, but I forgot the camera.
Much of the time we are just taking it easy, a day of this, then a day of that.
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