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.

GETTIN DOWN WITH THE BREHMS, 22 AUG. 2010

HOWDY FROM SUNRIVER/BEND ORGON

Things remain well for us all. We had a couple of nice trips from Twin Falls, ID. through Boise, and on to Burns OR. then from Burns on to Bend Oregon, where we are camped for a couple of weeks at the Thousand Trails, Sunriver Preserve. As we approached the preserve, we noticed lots of "EVENT" signs leading to various massive parking lots, shuttle buses, and signs saying something about a golf tournament. As we wiggled our way through the congestion, we realized we were camped almost next door to the PGA Open at Sunriver. After we got set up, we turned on the TV and there is was, being broadcast live.

We are happy to be here, nice weather; Down comforter at night, sweatshirt for the early morning walk, and tank top in the afternoon. We are 22 miles from Bend, so we will be able to get anything we need there. We are anxiously looking forward to hooking up with friends Andy and Linda, who are already up here somewhere, and Gene and Darlene, who are on their way up from Pio Pico in the San Diego area. As we were parking the motorhome here, we ran into our friends, Steve Dombrowski and his wife. After we leave this area, we will be heading toward the coast, where we hope to hook up with more friends, Glenn and Grace. Hope you all are doing well, love and God Bless.....

Ralph and Alice.............

OUR CAMPSITE AT TTN SUNRIVER

Lovely setting. Lots of pine trees, huge sites, the little Deschutes river, and the snow capped "Sisters" in the backround.

SUNRIVER TOWN SQUARE

One section of the camp is an "Old Time" town square. A semi-rickety boardwalk takes you past an old saloon, sheriff's office, courthouse, library, and of course the country store. Every building has carved characters of the towns people.

SUNRIVER ACTIVITY/DINING CENTER

This place has more food stands than you can shake a stick at. Ice cream stands, snack bar, bbq grill, and of course, the dining hall.

EXPRESSO ANYONE?

Yes, there it is, right on the campground property, an expresso chuck wagon. Open 6 am to 2 pm.

GET DOWN WITH THE BREHMS, 15 AUGUST 2010

GREETINGS FROM POTATOVILLE, USA

Another wonderful adventure! We drove from Butte, Montana to Eden (as in the garden of......), Idaho. The drive was pleasant, and the campground very nice. We are about 15-20 miles North of Twin Falls, so everything we need is close by, even a Costco. The campground, in fact, most of the rural area is surrounded by potato, corn, and onion fields. We have seen the falls, a beautiful herd of elk, the countryside, and downtown. There is an Applebee's in Twin Falls, and it is a fatal sin to drive by an Applebee's without stopping to buy Diane lunch. I did good! might get lucky....

Next week we will head West again with Burns, OR. in our sights. From there to Bend, and Sunriver OR. and on to Junction City, near Eugene, for some home entertainment upgrades. We have an appointment for 9/7.

Hope you are all doing great, and having as much fun as we are. We are looking forward to our next get together. Love and God Bless.............



Ray, Diane, and our keepers.................

SHOSHONE FALLS

Ain't we just a couple of knockouts? Behind us are the stunning Shoshone Falls at Twin Falls, Idaho.

ELK BURGERS ON THE HOOF

There we were, just meandering our way down the Snake River gorge, when all of a sudden, I glanced up on the very edge of the gorges cliff. There were at least a dozen absolutely beautiful and huge elk looking down on us. They stayed there all the time we were down at the falls.