Miles Traveled: 1010
I am reallyfuckingtired. But I made it to Boise... after a slight miscalculation in how many miles I needed to drive. For some reason, I thought it was only around 240 miles instead of 300. It's not that much of a difference except at 1:30am when you have 60 miles to go.
What a day. I started in Crescent City, drove to Crater Lake, up to Bend, and then over to Boise - about 600 miles. I am really looking forward to sleeping in a bed tonight and shaving and showering.
One quick update before I go to sleep:
I am finally able to answer the question, "What the heck is out there beyond Bend, OR?" The answer: Absolutely NOTHING. It's the high desert out there and I wasn't sure what it meant until I drove through it. There is nothing out there. In the 125 miles between Bend and Burns, I counted fewer than 20 permanent structures, 3 small farms, and about 50 cows. And amazingly, I had a lot more cell phone coverage than I did on the drive up the California coast yesterday.
Here are a few pictures of the drive from Bend to Boise. It seriously looked like this for the first 125 miles. Despite the desolation, it was still quite scenic!
The clouds here looked like they were painted.
I did not stay here, but only because they were like 60 miles away from Boise.
2 comments:
TC & I almost died in a massive blizzard that shut down the roads in the High Desert heading south to Bend from the river gorge.
Apparently we were the last car to go through before they closed it. We figured we would slide off into one of those farm ditches, get covered up by snow, and found come spring. It was very scary. Best part: driving behind a semi on the wrong side of the highway. Ooops.
It is strangely beautiful there in the high desert though, huh?
There's a Bates Motel in rural Pennsylvania too. Stayed there as a kid when my family moved cross country from SF to Maine. Spooky!
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