Heading south to Oregon

On Monday, we left Thousand Trails Chehalis and Washington state, on our way to Bend, Oregon.

I was watching for the "Welcome to Oregon" sign, but nearly missed it with all the roads and traffic -- barely caught a picture of it through the screen on our front door!

Heading east on I-84 a little ways, could see Mount Hood in the distance.

Another view of Mount Hood as we traveled

This might also be Mount Hood as we climbed so we were closer to it.

Later, the road dropped into a valley...

... the scenery was so different at this point -- "golden" hills with brown grass.

When we got to Thousand Trails Bend-Sunriver, we got checked in and went to find a site. We knew from our previous visit here that there were many sites that could accommodate Gracie -- and they have recently upgraded all the sites to 50A, so that made all of the sites equally desirable. There are no sewer sites here, so all the sites are about the same. 

We decided to drive the area where we had parked when we were here 2 years ago -- at that time, we got one of the few 50A sites in the park and were glad to have snagged it. This time, even though we could have picked any part of the park, we found one near where we parked previously, and it appeared to have an area where we could put our Starlink Dishy out and have a reasonably clear northern sky view.

When we were getting ready to back Gracie into the site, I noticed something over on the far side of the site...

... zooming in, it was a bunny. I remembered from our last time here that there are many bunnies, and they look like they are escaped (or released or abandoned) domestic bunnies as they are much more colorful than wild bunnies I am accustomed to seeing. I took pictures because I figured it would take off once it realized this noisy beast was moving in to the site next door....

... but it continued to stay there while we parked and set up, eventually heading out to another spot.

Bend is one of our favorite Thousand Trails campgrounds. It has nice sites, and when we've been here, it has had a lot of sun. It isn't too far from the town of Bend where there are plenty of stores and things to see and do. There are also volcanic sites nearby which we visited when we were here in 2022. We've been looking forward to coming here and enjoying what this area has to offer.