THE WEATHER: Cold, rainy & cloud covered. High’s in the 60’s
THE DISTANCE: Drove 220 miles to Rte. 395 Dale, Oregon.
The scenery is changing as we drive east in Oregon. No longer the forested areas we’ve been seeing, it is now high prairie dessert. Lot’s of dry, brown ground interspersed with green scrub pines. It’s like a scene out of Bonanza! Sorry if you’re too young to remember the show. We would drive through that type of area for quite a distance and then all of a sudden we would turn a corner and enter into rocky ledges and we would descend into a valley of cliffs and steep rock faces. We saw countless deer as we crossed this area. At times you could see for miles with no sign of vegetation and then hit a spot where there was the tiniest bit of water and voila there would be pines all over the place. The area is full of either large ranches or farmland. The Oregon trail is close by but we haven’t crossed it yet.
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