Thursday July 8, 2010 - Portland, Oregon to Bend, Oregon

We spent the morning loading up, doing laundry, cleaning, and generally readying for departure. We actually left around 2pm, but due to some strange directions, probably didn't actually get out of the Portland suburbs until about 3pm. We opted to drive the eastern half of route 26 (since we had driven the western portion on Tuesday) to Bend. This took us right by Mt. Hood, which was beautiful and very snow-covered still. I think this route was a little shorter and a little less windy than the route we've previously taken (south out of Portland to Salem and then east to Bend). It was just over a three hour drive, but the kids were pretty burnt out on it. Hopefully we're breaking them back in to travel days, since we'll have a flurry of them over the next few weeks.

We arrived just before 6pm, and enjoyed pizzas at Gwen & Greg & Amba's house. The kids had fun playing, of course, and our kids were thrilled to be around dogs again.