STILL GETTIN DOWN AS OF 29 AUGUST 2010

BEST REGARDS FROM BEND/SUNRIVER, OR.

Greetings, loving family and friends, from Bend/Sunriver Oregon. What a nice week, kickback, no changing campsites, we love the one we have. Weather has changed in the short time we've been here. We have gone from tank tops to sweatshirts in a week. We hooked up with good friends Andy & Linda, who are camped a few miles south of here, and were able to enjoy the area and their friendship for a few days. Our good friends from Pio Pico, Gene and Darlene came up to join us. They drove up more than 24 hours faster than mortal beings can. We enjoy their company and have done some touristy things you will see in the pics. We like this campground so much, we extended for another week. When we leave here, we are headed for Junction City OR. where we are going to have some home entertainment upgrades done to the coach. From there, we will start our two month return to SoCal. We hope you all had a wonderful summer. We wish you health and peace and laughs as your prosperity. Love and God Bless..............

Help me Rhonda, and Roger th3e Rabbit..................

DESCHUTES BREWERY TASTING STAFF

We were fortunate enough to hook up with good friends Andy and Linda Clarckson. They are high class people like us, so they took us to the Deschutes Brewery directly. We sampled the fine embibed delicasies of the establishment, and took a tour thereof. We are now capable of producing super suds, all we need is a brewery and $29,000,000 in operating capital. Pledge documents will be forthcoming.

PARTY, CLARCKSON STYLE

Our friends, Andy and Linda Clarckson were camped down the road at Cascade Meadows, in LaPine. Being the consumate hosts that they are, they pulled a party together of their Yuma neighbors in the winter, who come home to Oregon in the summer, along with their Pio Pico friends, us and the McDonoughs. Lots of fun, nice people, new friends, good food and drink, and lots of companionship. Thanks Linda, thanks, Andy.

LAVA BUTTE, THE TOP OF NEWBERRY VOLCANO

This picture taken from the top of the volcano.

In the distance, you can see Pilot Butte. Click on this pic, or any of the pics for that matter, to view is full screen. This area is abundant with extinct volcanos.

VOLCANIC BEAUTIES

Darlene and Diane at the top of Lava Butte. Mt Bachelor in the backround.

BEND IN THE DISTANCE

This picture was taken from the top of Lava Butte (Newberry Volcano) towards Bend OR. and Pilot Butte to the right. Highway 97 is visible heading toward Bend.

HIGH DESERT MUSEUM TROUT

This beauty just swam right by us, looking for bugs on top of the water.

HIGH DESERT MUSEUM

Diane, Gene, and Darlene at the entrance to the High Desert Museum, a privately owned and operated not-for-profit museum, that has a lot of Idaho, Washington, Montana, and Oregon displays and artifacts.

HIGH DESERT MUSEUM

The High Desert Museum in Bend Oregon has many recreations of living situations from the past. This is a recreation of an old miners camp.