Our new home for a week - Newberry RV Park in La Pine Oregon. Our friends Diane and Ray have joined us. Decided to try this park for a couple reasons - 1) it is closer to friends Nita & Ken, and 2) it is a good deal with the weekly rate that includes all hookups (50 amp), free Cable TV and free WiFi!
Had a great lunch and extra good beers at what we thought was the Cascade Brewing Company Lodge in Bend Oregon. Wasn't the Lodge, but the meal and company was excellent all the same!
La Pine has some beautiful sunsets also!!!
Moving day again ... this time about 40 miles to the North to Redmond Oregon and the site of the FMCA "Family Reunion". We are settled in and have a wonderful site for the next 6 days. Looking forward to seeing lots of old friends and making some new ones.
Lots of motorhomes waiting to get parked!
The view out of our windshield - still some snow on the local mountains.
Our good friend Lew stopped by and we did a little pub hopping - ending up with some great pizza and beer.
Had a couple "soggy" days, then the weather turned back into beautiful! Seems really strange because every time we have been here for a FMCA rally it has been all sun and hot at 100 degrees or more! This was a pleasant change of pace. Even had to pull out some long pants and jackets!!!!
This is our beautiful parking spot from the back - easy walking to just about everything going on. There was a Tram that stopped near us and the Golf Carts were giving rides to everyone - so we had it pretty good at this rally!
Especially right across the street we had this wonderful little "2 Barrel" Brewery and Pub. Easy to walk to - no "drinking and driving" for us!!!!
Lots of vendors - and this was just one of the buildings!!!
Friends Nita and Ken drove up for the day to enjoy the rally and a great lunch at the Wild Ride Brewing here in Redmond.
Andy was the winner of the Grand Prize from the "Visit Louisiana" booth. Lots of great products to make many yummy meals!
With the rally over, we headed back South to La Pine. We liked the Newberry RV park so much, we decided to return and stay put until the Labor Day Holiday was over. Unfortunately, we found out too late that our 3 weekly stays would have paid for a whole month! We will keep that in mind for next Summer.
Rains here too!!! Guess that is why Oregon stays so green and beautiful.
Nita and Ken took us to the Lava River Cave - part of the Newberry National Volcanic Monument. We had seen most of the other parts, but had never stopped here. It was beautiful.
None of us were able to make the trek down into the cave - So many stairs down and the same stairs back up, we decided to just enjoy the awesomeness from above.
Just about every corner of every town up North has these beautiful flowers - I sure wish I knew the secret of growing them like this. I try in Yuma, but it just never works out like this! The perfume from the flowers fill the air and it is wonderful......
We had a wonderful lunch with Nita and Ken at the Pine Tavern in Bend. This is a very old, very nice restaurant. We sat inside because this patio area was full - right on the Deschutes River at Mirror Pond - absolutely beautiful!
One last "gathering" while in the Central Oregon area - Nita and Ken hosted my "Gumbo & Beer" gathering. Diane and Ray joined us for a wonderful afternoon of Gumbo and Beer from the Deschutes Brewery in Bend Oregon.
