Barb and I then headed into Bend for a little shopping. First stop was a restaurant supply place to pick up gloves Barb likes to wear during food preparation. The last stop was McMenamins St. Francis School to purchase two more four packs of beer (one Ruby and one Hammerhead) to go with our earlier purchases.
Lunch was down in the wine cellar with left over pizza (from last night) and wine. Pretty cool place for lunch. Dinner was was at E BarGrill, where Neal and I had our favorite meat loaf.
The evening was a comedy hour with old Dean Martin videos. Tomorrow we start heading back home. Sorry out visit in Redmond was so short.
44.2 miles around Redmond and Bend
Today we were up at 5:30 getting everything packed up. A quick breakfast of coffee and toast, not so quick good byes and we were off at 7:22. We stopped in Redmond for a pair of Starbucks and later in La Pine for a breakfast sandwich each.
The debate over what route to take ended when we took highway 31, which would take 5 minutes longer but miss a lot of traffic on highway 97. Nearing Fort Rock we started getting smoke and the further we went to more smoke we got. I suspect that it was coming our way from the California fires.
Lunch was a quick sandwich in Alturas and later we would drive through Reno at rush hour. Don’t like that kind of traffic. First on the To Do list was find one of those spray it yourself car wash. Somewhere around Silver Lake we ran into a flock of grasshoppers. At least I think they were grasshoppers. About and inch and a half long they made quite a thump when hitting the car. It wasn’t till our first rest stop that we saw the mess they had made of the front of the car. Since the attack had taken place early in the day they had become firmly attached, but we managed to get them off with $1.50 worth of high pressure spray.
For dinner we split cheese ravioli at an unnamed restaurant, where the service was so bad I had a little chat with the manager.
Tomorrow we are off to Las Vegas for our last night on the road.
458 miles Redmond to Carson City
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