We packed up our belonging 
after a restful night in the Handicap room at the Sugar Loaf Mountain Motel in Bend. We stayed up past midnight because the Soprano’s final show was on HBO and we hadn’t seen it yet…funny that we had to drive all the way to Bend to watch the Sopranos. Morning came pretty quickly! We checked out, had someone gas us up again and had a gourmet breakfast at Burger King. The GPS couldn’t locate a Starbuck’s so we hit the highway. Soon enough, Kevin spotted one and I encouraged him to stop since they had a drive through. No sooner had we gotten our drinks, chatted it up with the friendly employee’s, and started to drive away when we heard a loud tearing/crashing noise! We found that one of our bikes was hung-up in the Starbuck’s awning. Yikes! This Starbuck’s addiction comes at a price. Luckily, Kevin was driving slow enough to be able to stop quickly and not cause a lot of damage to the bikes, racks, or car. Mainly Kevin’s headlight was ripped completely off and our bike rack seemed to stretch. All in all no serious damage to our stuff, but that awning is going to need some work. Travel tip: Watch out for the drive through awning when carrying bikes on the roof of one’s vehicle.
after a restful night in the Handicap room at the Sugar Loaf Mountain Motel in Bend. We stayed up past midnight because the Soprano’s final show was on HBO and we hadn’t seen it yet…funny that we had to drive all the way to Bend to watch the Sopranos. Morning came pretty quickly! We checked out, had someone gas us up again and had a gourmet breakfast at Burger King. The GPS couldn’t locate a Starbuck’s so we hit the highway. Soon enough, Kevin spotted one and I encouraged him to stop since they had a drive through. No sooner had we gotten our drinks, chatted it up with the friendly employee’s, and started to drive away when we heard a loud tearing/crashing noise! We found that one of our bikes was hung-up in the Starbuck’s awning. Yikes! This Starbuck’s addiction comes at a price. Luckily, Kevin was driving slow enough to be able to stop quickly and not cause a lot of damage to the bikes, racks, or car. Mainly Kevin’s headlight was ripped completely off and our bike rack seemed to stretch. All in all no serious damage to our stuff, but that awning is going to need some work. Travel tip: Watch out for the drive through awning when carrying bikes on the roof of one’s vehicle.After adjusting the bikes and rack we headed down highway 97 with our next goal of visiting “the Painted Hills unit” of the John Day monument in Eastern 
Oregon. The drive was truly outstanding and incredibly picturesque. There were beautiful lakes, rivers, and meadows to see throughout the entire drive. Once at the turn off to the Painted Hills, it was only 6 miles to the site. We are so glad we decided to go see this area because the landscape was really unique and colorful. We left Painted Hills and headed toward the Sheep Ranch unit of the John Day monument. Here we had a nice picnic lunch at a historical sheep owner’s ranch near the John Day River. Once again the landscape was amazing and the Father’s Day picnic was memorable. Travel tip: If you’re not sure if beer is allowed at a National Monument…hide them behind your box of Wheat Thins…worked for 
us.
Oregon. The drive was truly outstanding and incredibly picturesque. There were beautiful lakes, rivers, and meadows to see throughout the entire drive. Once at the turn off to the Painted Hills, it was only 6 miles to the site. We are so glad we decided to go see this area because the landscape was really unique and colorful. We left Painted Hills and headed toward the Sheep Ranch unit of the John Day monument. Here we had a nice picnic lunch at a historical sheep owner’s ranch near the John Day River. Once again the landscape was amazing and the Father’s Day picnic was memorable. Travel tip: If you’re not sure if beer is allowed at a National Monument…hide them behind your box of Wheat Thins…worked for 
us. We got back on the highway and drove another 2 hours to a fairly remote campsite just outside Baker City where we are spending the night. While choosing our site we ran into the only other person at the camp site and his only suggestion to us was: “there is another camp site 2 miles down the road”. It must have been the California plates… we felt as welcome as a whore in church. Tomorrow we will finally reach Joseph, Oregon via Hells Canyon.
Travel tip: If you're ever headed down highway 97 be sure to look out for the Shoe Trees.
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