Oct 29, 2012 - Sisters, OR

While heading to Sisters, OR we ran in and out of snow until we reached Bend then the weather improved a great deal. We stayed at Bend/Sisters Garden RV Park in Sisters. This use to be a KOA. We have stayed here several times and while it is a little spendy, $36.00 this time of year, but up to $52 in summertime, it is the nicest park in the area. We spent two nights here and went to Tumalo Feed Co. for dinner. Since I was a little kid, I wanted to eat here. I wasn't disappointed. The food was exceptional. Dale and I both had rib-eye steaks....

Aug 15, 2012 - Last day at Sisters

Today is our last day at Sisters and we are relaxing at the RV Park. I went swimming this morning and we went into Sisters for lunch at The Gallery Restaurant. In the evening we went to the Tumalo Feed Company Restaurant and were very disappointed in the whole experience. We will be packing up in the morning and heading home. It has been a relaxing few days but will be nice to be home.

Aug 12, 2012 - Sight seeing on the east side of the Oregon Cascades

Today we drove through the Deschutes National Forest on the east side of the Oregon Cascades. First stop was Camp Sherman and the head waters of the Metolius River. The Metolius begins as a spring at the base of Black Butte, but geologists believe the source of the spring is high in the Cascade Mountains many miles to the west. The river is a favorite catch-and-release trout fishing stream with fly fishermen. After leaving Camp Sherman, we traveled further west to Suttle Lake and the Suttle Lake Lodge. The lodge is very rustic, we would...

Aug 11, 2012 - First day at Sisters

After getting our RV parked in our RV site at Sisters Bend Garden RV Resort, we headed to town to find something to eat. The Slicks Que Company barbecue restaurant looked inviting and Yelp gave it good ratings so we decided to give it a try.....................not. The food was awful, the meat was actually cold and most of the food looked like it came out of a can. After lunch we went grocery shopping and stocked our trailer so we can eat part of our meals in the trailer. Tomorrow will be our fist day and we will probably get out and see...

May 28, 2012 - Out & About & Who Ordered the Snow ??

On the 24 we had snow showers here in Crescent which was OK, but we woke up to snow on the ground on the 25th. I have a question.....Who ordered that? Its cold !! I must say it is beautiful but happy that it has melted away. On Saturday we drove to La Pine (a whole 17 miles away) to meet up with Picacho, AZ. friends Lloyd & Guay, they were in La Pine visiting their friends Judy & Cal. We met them for lunch at Cinco De Mayo (hope I spelled that correctly). We really enjoyed seeing them again & had a wonderful visit. Yesterday (Sunday) we...

May 20, 2012 - Sisters, Sunday

Yesterday (Saturday) morning, we left the dogs in the rig and drove into town to check it out. Sisters has a population of just 2,000, but it is a thriving town, with new construction all over. We grabbed some coffee and walked through the main street shops. They have very nice shops featuring local artisans’ work. There was an entire store devoted just to earrings (I had to buy a pair). One of the other jewelry stores is owned by an artist who was commissioned by the Smithsonian to create jewelry for some of their displays. We had lunch at...

May 19, 2012 - Sisters, OR

After a six hour (and sometimes hairy) drive yesterday, we landed in the town of Sisters. We are now in a valley of the western Cascades, near Mt. Bachelor. We arrived at about 4pm, and decided that we’d better walk the dogs before we started hooking everything up. We ran into some chatty RVer’s, and it was after 5pm before we got back to the rig. The weather is much calmer here than on the coast: No wind here, and temps in the 60’s. They are forecasting rain showers for tomorrow, but nothing major. We were all exhausted last night, and...

Oct 1, 2011 - Day #24,10-1-11

Day #24, 10-1-11 Damn, it’s October already. I wonder if Lewis and Clark felt like this. Today was a bit too ambitious. We determined we were going to this little town down south named “Sisters”. This was almost back to Bend Oregon (150 Miles). However, we plugged it into the GPS and off we went. Once outside Portland, Minerva (our GPS) took us through about 50 miles of back road ventures. It was kind of a Norman Rockwell Americana tour with many little towns, Farms, Vineyards, and Speed zones. There were Mansions and rambling wrecks with...

Sep 12, 2011 - Who's sister is it anyway?

As you can see be our new location, we have been doing a little misdirection on our journal entries recently. We wanted to surprise friends at RedRock RV Park in Island Park, Idaho with an unannounced arrival and many of those folks read our journal. So, we pulled up our landing legs in Port Orford, Oregon early this morning and headed east to Sisters, which is located on the east side of the Cascade Mountains of Oregon. It was a beautiful day for a drive and traffic was exceptionally light the entire way. If there was a downside at all,...

Sep 7, 2011 - Sisters, OR

On the way to Sisters, OR we stopped at the Painted Hills unit of the John Day Fossil Beds, assured by Gary Thurman it was possible to drive the rig in there and turn around. Safe to say, he was absolutely right. The Painted Hills unit has color-banded domes formed by layers of volcanic sediment, a spectacular sight. The black soil is lignite that was vegetative matter that grew along the floodplain. The grey coloring is mudstone, siltstone, and shale. The red coloring is laterite soil that formed by floodplain deposits when the area was...

Jul 17, 2011 - Sisters, Or

Hi Everyone, Guess what it is cloudy and cool up here. No rain today! We traveled to the Sisters, Or about 20 miles from Bend. It is cowboy country! There are three mountains that are together Faith,Hope and Charity gave its name for the town. Also is Mt. Jefferson, Mt Washington Three fingered Jack and broken top create an incredible skyline over Sisters. Tomorrow we'll do a little more exploring as the Rally is done so there should be a million rigs on the road! Met a nice couple next to us and I got to use their Verizon web thing. Will...

Jul 9, 2011 - Sisters' Quilt Show

July 9 We are off to Sisters today and the quilt show. Also meeting up with Ragona’s and Mayfield’s. Weather is nice, not too warm, slight breeze. We have left early as 12,000 people are expected in this small town today, About 1 mile out of town traffic comes to a stop and we creep into town. We find a parking place on a side street and start walking and looking at quilts. Sisters is a small town with just over 2,000 residents. In July each year it is the site of a huge quilt show. This year there are over 1300 quilts from 35 states and...