Oregon– category –

Bend was thankfully far enough from the fires to let us escape the haze, but the fires brought us into the area a couple of days earlier than we planned, so we had some time to check out the nature that Bend is so renowned for. Newberry ...

Our minds blown like so many shards of obsidian, we crossed into Oregon, just one state away from home.  The first stop on the list: Crater Lake, where my mother took me as a child. The fires tearing through California and Oregon were wr...