After our day at the John Day Fossil Beds, we spent the night and half the next day in the lovely high-desert plateau city of Bend, Oregon - population in excess of 70,000. After all that hiking and driving, it was great to see a Starbucks again! It was also great to stumble upon what has become my new favorite store, the World Market which stocks a fabulous collection of international foods. Ed … [Read more...]
Personal Musings
Rants, raves and thoughts about topics such as politics and religion.
A Hike on the Damnation Creek Trail
See our other pictures from the Damnation Creek Trail. See the full list of places that we visited during our Washington / Oregon / California road trip … [Read more...]
John Day Fossil Beds National Monument
During our trip planning, I happened to spot John Day Fossil Beds National Monument on the map, and after just a minute or two of poking around the Internet to see pictures of the place, we both knew that it was a 'must-visit' destination. The Monument consists of three separate chunks of land including the Sheep Rock, Painted Hills, and Clarno Units. Coming from the north and east, our first … [Read more...]
Dry Falls and the MegaFlood
Dry Falls is one of the greatest geological wonders in North America -- a former waterfall that now stands as a dry cliff 400 feet high and 3.5 miles wide. When active, this waterfall was ten times larger than Niagara Falls. The falls were created following the catastrophic collapse of an enormous ice-dam holding back the waters of what has been named "Glacier Lake Missoula". Water covering … [Read more...]
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