Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Bend Over All

Bend, Oregon-Home of Grant & Rainie Carson is like a progressive city- a town with a pedicure. Only 20 years ago it was filled with lumber companies and workers that spit tobacco on the streets. Today it thrives with a population of active sports enthusiasts-biking and kayaking in the summer and snowboarding/sking in the mountains a few miles from the high desert community. Everyone is outside. The singer Joan Baez performed at an outside concert this past weekend.
Unfortunately we can't do it all.

This past weekend we went south to see Crater Lake and on to raft on the the Roque River and camping in the Redwood Forest -magnificent ! On the return to Bend, we headed up Hwy 101 from northern California back to Oregon coast. The parks in Oregon are much superior to those in California-more natural beauty; more spacious.

Were loving the new Rialta for traveling like turtle with our own shell.