April
8, 2015
Day
1
On
the road again!!! Arose at 5 am to do last minute packing and
cleaning. Photographer arrived at 6:45 to take pictures of us and
our car for a story about our trip that hopefully will appear in the
News Tribune to help us get more sponsors for the Unbound children.
Kevin Trucco stopped over to wish us well on our trip and we hit the
road about 8:10. First stop House of Donuts to get our traditional
roadtrip fare of fritter for Jack and maple bar for Jodi. After all, we do have our priorities!
Started
reading the Ultimate Baseball RoadTrip book to learn about the Oakland stadium.
This is a great book with lots of fun information about the history
of the teams, the ballparks, parking, food and things to do.
As
we were traveling, we got an exciting text letting us
know that one of Jodi's friends had sponsored Daniela! 3 sponsored, 27 to
go! Daniela and her family will be so very happy!
The
next stop we made was at Smith Rock State Park. This is a beautiful
place with magnificient rock towers with a river that runs through it. It was world
class rock climbing there. We saw several climbers there. Mallory
and I had hike here over 10 years ago when we took a family trip to
Sun River. Jack and I hiked it in reverse, going up Misery Ridge
first. That got our heart pumping. That is a good thing to try to
burn off some of those donuts! Very pretty view from the top of Misery Ridge of the
surrounding high desert.
We
then stopped at our Affordable Travel Club(ATC )hosts house to drop our bags off before going
into Bend to get dinner. We stayed in a beautiful home outside Bend
on a large piece of property that was constructed out of concrete,
the home of Karen and Chuck and their sweet dog Cashman.
Their home was beautifully designed with many fabulous art pieces by Chuck, a talented artist. We had a glass of wine/beer with Karen and had a lovely conversation with her and then went into Bend and ate . Bend has grown since we were last here but still very charming.
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