Travel from Dayville to Bend, Oregon

We drove our coach 140 miles, about 3 hours of driving, from Dayville, Oregon to Bend, Oregon.

The map route, heading southwest:

Map route

When departing we toaded up (i.e. hooked up our truck to our coach) on a road outside the park:

Departing

We had an issue where the airbag suspension wasn’t reaching travel height; in the end we decided to start forward anyway, and suddenly it reached the right level. My theory was that since we were heading downhill, there was too much weight on the front, until we leveled out. An important lesson to always get to travel height before moving (which we almost always do; this was an unusual situation).

Dayville Cafe:

Dayville Cafe

Mesa:

Mesa

Picture Gorge; scenic, but a little nerve-wracking in a 40-foot coach:

Picture Gorge

Picture Gorge

A nice meadow and barn:

Meadow

Paladin:

Paladin

Hills:

Hills

Trees

Another nice meadow and barn, the kind of place we might like to have as a home base one day:

Meadow and barn

Lake:

Lake

Tastee Treet:

Tastee Treet

Horse sculptures:

Horse sculptures

Mountains:

Mountains

Mountains

Redmond sculpture:

Redmond sculpture

Thousand Trails entrance:

Thousand Trails entrance

Thousand Trails entrance

They were replacing the entrance barriers:

Thousand Trails entrance