Our last day in Reno, it was 97 degrees. Since our mission is "chasing 70-degree weather", it was time to head north.
First, a quick overnight in Likely, California, where we stayed in a remote RV park with almost 600 acres of trails. The pups had fun chasing bunnies, meeting cows, and running around like maniacs in the high desert hills.
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| Likely Place RV Resort (click to open the full pano view) |
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| Not bad when this is the view to which you wake up. |
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| Sunday meets the local cows. Finn then herded them along the fenceline |
After one night in California, we ventured up to Klamath Falls, Oregon. Doug and his family lived here for a brief time in 1989 when he was an ROTC instructor at Oregon Institute of Technology. Of course, first things first - we had to revisit the
pizza place they all love so much (the one that puts thinly shaved linguisa on their pizza).
The next day, Doug planned a relaxing walk part way around Lake of the Woods in the Winema National Forest.
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| Sunday doing her duty of ridding Oregon of moles |
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| Mole hunting is a dirty dirty job |
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| No walk is complete without a competitive swim at the end. |
Today, we went to
Crater Lake National Park on the motorcycle and rode the rim road all the way around. Very awesome.
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| Crater Lake |
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| No photo filter here - the water is really that blue |
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| Guess I need to work on my selfie-smile. Its not easy in a helmet! |
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| Crater Lake and "Wizard Island" |
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| Crater Lake from a different angle |
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| On the motorcycle, all you can smell is pine. It's like being on a giant Christmas Tree Farm!!!! |
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| Sheer dropoff. Wonder how many stupid tourists the NPS has to rescue every summer? |
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| Just south of Crater Lake. This crevasse was formed by the lava flow & steam. |
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| On the way to Rocky Point on Klamath Lake |
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| Rocky Point |
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| Oregon's version of a loon?? All I know is it ate a fish as long as its neck right before this picture. |
Breathing in all that high desert dry air and pine smells made us really thirsty. So we went to a
brewery (can you believe it??????)
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| Mmmmmmmm........IPA |
We were planning on leaving this morning for Redmond/Bend. But, one of the slides in the RV is busted and needs to be repaired before we can go anywhere. Luckily found a great
family-owned repair shop who took us right in and essentially did a drug deal to get us parts in a hurry. Hopefully we'll be all patched up and moving north again on Saturday, but I won't be upset if we have to stay here longer. So many trails and swimmin' holes to explore!!!
