Oregon, My Oregon

June 17, 2015

Dog is my co-pilot

We left Idaho and entered Oregon. Bebop took over as navigator - yes, Cheri, driving the rig, would say that "Dog" is my Copilot.

Dolly's all comfy in Baker City.

We stopped at the first possible place, which happens to be Baker City, Oregon. We settled into a very comfortable camp site, again under a canopy of trees. I must say, the weather here is absolutely perfect. Not too hot during the day with nice cool breezes at night. Great sleeping weather. And, we could once again hear the sounds of the Amtrak train in the distance as it chugged its way up and down the coast. 

We awoke to a different sound - the sound of an RV that had his rig's horns programmed to play "On the Road Again" as they pulled out of the camp. We got a good laugh out of that.

The RV of the day on the Oregon Trail

Baker City is the home of the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center. Cheri and I toured the museum, which basically showed how the white man took advantage of the Indians, killed them and took their land, after they had been so generous and welcoming to the new strange peoples. The covered wagons that the settlers came across the 2,000 mile journey are the equivalent of today's RV - it was their home and their means of transportation, even though they walked most of the route because of the rough conditions of the trail.

I did find an interesting landmark in Baker City - In & Out Burger. It was built in 1957 and is a family owned business that still looks the same today as it did when it opened. It's the old style drive in restaurant, where you pull up to a space, order your food through a microphone and the servers bring the food out to you on a tray that they attach to your car window. No relation the the California In 'n Out Burger, made even more famous by the Walter Sobchak in The Big Lebowski.

One of the nice things about being here is finding some fine Oregon wines to accompany our freshly grilled Wild Salmon. It's been a fun couple of nights in Oregon, and tomorrow, we pack everything up and head up the Columbia Gorge, where we'll cross over into the state of Washington!