Day ~ 14 Driving to Redmond, Oregon......Just Overnight Here

Day 14 ~ Driving to Redmond, Oregon

Not much to tell today or even much to show in photos.  We drove hard all day, leaving Spokane early in the morning.  According to Google it should have been a 5-1/2 hour drive, but true to form it was more like 7.

We stopped at the library.  LOL.  I was able to use my Nook to download some library books at McDonalds. 

One book that I downloaded was The Willoughbys.  We listened to this for most of the day.  It was fantastic.  We laughed through many miles of Oregon Territory. 

I have also been reading some Nicholas Sparks books, Erma Bombeck, and John Green’s An Abundance of Katherines.  I wonder if my book clubby friends are reading Dear Sugar.  I am in Cheryl Strayed’s neck of the woods!  I think I saw her going into a gas station......

A few sights from the backseat:

Bridge in Washington

Bridge Over the Columbia River

Oregon



Much of Oregon Looks Like Home!  See the Windmills?

Huge Big Mountain that we can see from the road in front of the KOA.  Not sure which one of the Cascade Mountains it might be.......

 

We arrived at a nice KOA.  Had a simple dinner of chicken, baked potatoes, and oranges.  We have to use up our citrus fruits before we go through California’s border.  My brother in law told us we they would make us dump all our fruit when we crossed the border.  I find this crazy that it would be true within the same country……However, I asked at the office tonight, and they said that even though there were check points, you probably won’t have to do it coming in from the North.  We shall see.

We also went swimming in this KOA’s excellent pool for a couple of hours.  And dear Michael even did 3 loads of laundry in between playing with the kids in the pool because it is so sunny and windy.  I was reluctant to do 3 loads because of the last time we attempted laundry……but everyone was super nice here. The laundry is almost dry already!   No big deal. 

Tomorrow we plan to start early again and drive to Crater Lake then on to Sunny California!!!!