While my parents were in town, we wanted to show off our latest love: Bend, Oregon. It’s directly east of Eugene, just on the other side of the Cascades. We took the McKenzie Pass (a road that cuts through the mountains and is only open late June-October) to get to Bend, but first we drove…
smith rock.
Oregon is awesome. We’re used to experiencing Oregon’s glory in the typical Pacific Northwestern fashion: visiting waterfalls, hiking through old growth forests, and seeing lots and lots of green. Obviously, we love these aspects of Oregon (check out our many Oregon adventures on the ExplOregon page), but it’s nice to change things up every now…
touring oregon with the ringers: eugene to bend.
We headed east for the second day of touring Oregon with Eric’s parents. We could effectively call this day, “waterfall day,” as we checked four waterfalls off the to-do list. We started with a trip down McKenzie Highway (126) to Sahalie Falls. We parked in the lot there, walked a few steps to the viewpoint…
oregon adventures (day 2).
So, I had the goal of updating the ol’ blog at the end of each day during Becca’s stay in hopes of remembering everything that we did. Obviously, that didn’t happen, but hopefully I’ll be able to keep it all straight. For the second day of Becca’s Oregon adventure trip, we started our morning with…
sahalie falls.
Okay, let’s jump back a few weeks to a time when there was still snow on the ground. It’s hard to imagine a time when it was cold enough to have snow, as I sit here on our balcony in shorts and a tank top. We have had 3 solid weeks of awesome, sunny, 70-degree…