Red Bluff – CA

GREETINGS FROM RED BLUFF, California (CA), USA “Cal-i-forn-ya, here I come” ……. – (come on, you know the rest) – and for us a whole new part of the state we have not been to before. This morning we made our way out of Crater Lake National Park via the south entrance […]


Crater Lake NP – OR – Day 2

MORE GREETINGS FROM CRATER LAKE NP There is a drive all around the rim of the crater – so no prizes guessing what we did today. We had actually done the eastern side yesterday on the way in from the north. Today’s weather was much more overcast and the smoke haze […]


Crater Lake NP – OR – Day 1

GREETINGS FROM CRATER LAKE NP, Oregon (OR), USA Today we set-off for National Park number 5 on this trip – Crater Lake. On leaving our hotel, we first drove through a very attractive part of the town – relatively new by the looks of it – with manicured homes and extensive […]


Bend – OR

GREETINGS FROM BEND, Oregon (OR), USA Thankfully today we changed from Mountain Daylight Time back to Pacific Daylight Time as the extra hour now gave us 25 hours of activities to fit into 24 hours – and we needed it !   Our journey today started and finished on 4 […]


Boise – ID

GREETINGS FROM BOISE, Idaho (ID), USA Today was a driving day but we made the most of it taking the scenic route – in fact 4 scenic byways along the way. We left Ketchum just on 9am and started on the Sawtooth Scenic Byway. For the first half hour or […]