We drove our coach 196 miles, about 4 hours of driving (plus a couple of hours of waiting), from Caldwell, Idaho to Dayville, Oregon. It felt really good to be back in Oregon!
The map route, heading northwest:
Leaving the RV park:
Roadworks:
Paladin’s expression seems to say “a travel day AGAIN?!”; we feel that; three days in a row was a bit much; we plan to avoid that in the future:
Happy enough sitting on the back of my chair:
Crossing Snake River from Idaho into Oregon:
Welcome to Oregon:
We stopped at the rest area just after entering Oregon:
Check out time of the RV park was 11:00 MDT, check in time at the next destination was 16:00 PDT (unusually late), and travel time was about 4 hours, so we needed to wait a couple of hours. So we hung out at the rest area:
We had a super-classy lunch of hotdog buns with bologna and American cheese:
Our coach and truck:
We also visited the welcome center and wandered around the rather nice grounds:
Flowering prickly pear cacti; probably the last we’ll see of those for a few months (other than the one we have in our coach):
Oregon Trail info:
Then back on the road; nice Oregon bridge artwork:
Love’s diesel and DEF stop; $6.419 for diesel is rather a lot, though we paid less, thanks to a fuel discount card:
Turn to Bend:
Barn:
We followed this haymaker for a while:
And discovered a new dash indicator: after following that farm equipment with our hazard lights on, a “Check Info” light came on the dash, with a message on the display saying “Turn Signal On”. Apparently that appears if you drive more than a mile with a turn signal on, as a reminder for people who (somehow?!) don’t notice leaving it on. The message can be dismissing by hitting a button:
Hills:
Old building:
Fun fact: there is a portion of Oregon that uses Mountain time. So we entered the Pacific time zone further into the state:
A pleasant lakeside stop:
Our coach and truck:
A picturesque lake (actually Murray Reservoir):
Our truck and coach:
Back on the highway:
Sleepy Paladin:
Nice hills:
An idyllic meadow; this is the kind of place we could see ourselves settling down one day (for at least half the year):
Log building:
Mountains:
A wagon by a viewpoint:
Prairie City:
Cute little purple flowers:
I seemed to be a barn-pics mood:
The town of John Day:
Hills and John Day River:
Welcome to Dayville, “our fossils are friendly”:
Our destination, Fish House Inn and RV Park:
