FRIDAY / OCT 4 /ARRIVE IN BEND, OR

FRIDAY

OCTOBER 4 2024

WE WERE AWOKEN AT 4AM BY A TRUCK HONKING BACK UP ALARM AND LIGHTS SHINING RIGHT INTO OUR ROOM. 

GOT DOGS READY AND WENT FOR POTTY.

WE LEFT THE MOTEL 6 IN ELY, NV AND NOTHING WAS OPEN, WE STOPPED TO GET GAS AT LOVE'S TRAVEL STOP ON THE CORNER. HUBBY GOT 3 POTATO, CHEESE, EGG BURRITOS FOR THE DOGS. SO WE TOOK THEM TO THE LDS CHURCH FOR POTTY. 

FROM THERE WE DROVE HWY 93 NORTH TO WELLS, NV WHERE WE STOPPED TO GET FUEL. WALK THE DOGS. HUBBY GOT CRAPPY COFFEE AT THE GAS STATION.

HUBBY GOT HOT WATER FOR ME TO HAVE TEA. 

AT WELLS, NV WE GOT ON INTERSTATE 80 AND DROVE WEST. AT THE TUNNEL, WE WERE DETOURED AND HAD TO DRIVE AROUND A SHORT BIT. CONSTRUCTION.

DROVE TO WINNEMUCCA, NV WHERE WE STOPPED TO GET LATTES. THEN TOOK HWY 95 NORTH TO MCDERMITT ON THE BORDER OF NV/OR. 

HUBBY THREW HIS BANANAS AT ME TO HIDE THEM AND I TOLD HIM THAT WE WERE NOT GOING INTO CALIFORNIA. 

WE STOPPED TO WALK THE DOGS AT THE LIBRARY WHERE THERE WAS SOME GRASS.

THEN WE GOT ON HWY 78 WEST TO BURNS, OR. 

DROVE INTO A RAINSTORM OUTSIDE OF BURNS, OR

IN BURNS, OR WE GOT FUEL FROM NICE KIDS FILLING THE FUEL. STOPPED AT THE PARK TO WALK THE DOGS AND BOTH OF US USED THE RESTROOM AT THE PARK.

WALKED DOGS AT PIONEER PARK IN BURNS, OR

A HUGE DUST STORM (LOTS OF WIND) CAME AT US AND WE COULD NOT SEE IN FRONT OF US. HUBBY JUST KEPT DRIVING.

DUST STORM OUTSIDE OF BEND, OR

GOT INTO BEND, OR AT 5PM. WENT DIRECTLY TO KRL & SPENCER'S HOUSE.

IT IMMEDIATELY SMELLED LIKE FOREST FIRE SMOKE WHEN WE PULLED INTO THEIR STREET. BUT IT CLEARED LATER. 

NOBODY WAS THERE, BUT THEY HAD LEFT THE DOOR OPEN. SPENCER PULLED IN RIGHT AFTER US. HE HAD BEEN AT THE MEDICAL EVALUATION. KRL WAS GETTING HER HAIR DONE. SHE GOT HOME QUITE LATE. 

WE SAT DOWN AND LET THE DOGS PLAY. COVERED TATER UP WITH A BLANKET. IT WAS KINDA COOLER THERE IN BEND. 

TATER COVERED BY BLANKET AT KRL'S HOUSE

THEY DECIDED TO GO EAT & DRINK AT 10 BARREL BREWING. PIZZA WAS NOT GOOD. WINGS WERE NOT GOOD. GREASY FISH & CHIPS. I DID NOT TOUCH.

I HAD TO LEAVE THE BUILDING BECAUSE THE HOT WING SMELL MAKE ME CHOKE. 

THEN I CAME BACK AND THEY FINISHED EATING HOT WINGS. THE WAITRESS TOOK THE FISH & CHIPS OFF THE BILL WITHOUT ASKING.

WE LEFT THERE. CALLED TO RESERVE A LA QUINTA ON THE MAIN BOULEVARD.

WENT BACK TO KRL'S HOUSE AND TALKED. DOGS PLAYED.

THEY IT GOT TOO COLD AND WE WERE TIRED. WENT TO THE HOTEL AT 9PM. 

WALKED THE DOGS AROUND FOR POTTY. TOOK THE DOGS IN AND GAVE THEM WATER/FOOD. 

WE WENT TO BED RIGHT AWAY.