A good day. We travelled 58 miles over varied terrain and over two mountain passes. The second provided us with a 10 mile plus downhill on the other side, a wonderful way to enjoy the beautiful scenery.

Now that we are at higher elevations and beyond the rain shadow of the Cascade mountains there are trees again and the landscape is greener .

We stopped for lunch at former dig site Fossil, Oregon, but didn’t need to stop for gas at Fossil Fuel. We were then joined at the cafe by a large group of bewildered looking Harley riders on a “poker ride” which I first heard as a “polka ride” and was having a tough time picturing . The rules of the poker ride seemed to be as unclear to the riders as they were to us. Chris’ opening line to invite conversation was “You’re all holding maps, what’s the deal?”.

Our hostess for the evening had accidentally double booked the cabin we had reserved so she figured out some unconventional sleeping arrangements for us (see camper I photo for instance) but we are all good and rested and enjoying day after day of heavenly weather.