For our last morning in Bend we drove south to the Newberry National Volcanic Monument. We wanted to visit the vast lava fields created during a major eruption some 7,000…

Our first few days in Bend were sunny and warm, but by the afternoon of day three the skies were grey and snowflakes were falling. We spent much of the…

Our first day trip out of Bend was directly south to Crater Lake National Park. Created by the collapse of a large volcano some 7,000 years ago, the lake is…

Best friend Jim flew up to Portland from Arizona for his 50th birthday trip and I drove down and met him there. The next day we headed west to see…

For my birthday in January we spent the rainy weekend in Portland. The highlights of the trip were the restaurant Andina and the submarine at the science museum.