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July 4th
Out of the high mountains and headed to John Day. I'm not sure who John Day is or was, but there's a town with his name and a town called Dayville. There's also a John Day National monument which I was encouraged to visit.
I stopped in Dayville to eat breakfast. The cook told me he was going to watch the parade and the waitress could cook for me. I decided to watch the parade and eat afterwards. For such a small town, they really had a nice parade. This guy was just cruising through town, not part of the parade. I was told I could join in the parade on my bike if I wanted to. I remember the jail scene in Easy Rider and declined.
This little girl was adamant that she wasn't going to share her ice cream.
All ages showed up.
What's a parade in the west without horses?
Need a Jeep also.
Don't rent pigs and don't spell. Presnts may have been intentional.
Old tractors driven by old men.
Old cars.
Even older cars with hand crank starters.
There was so much candy thrown from the participants in the parade that kids quit picking it up.
Back to the breakfast. While I was eating breakfast, I saw four people leave without ordering. Each left after seeing the wolf skins for sale. Wolf skins sales can't be a high percentage of sales in a restaurant. The killing of wolves is such a volatile topic that the owner of a business has to know that he's going to lose business if he sells their skins. There were only three tables inside, so I moved outside finished my coffee and wrote in my notebook at an outside table. When I was about 30 miles away from the town, I realized I had forgotten to pay. Zip back.
Zip back through this ain't bad.
Painted hills in John Day NM
A couple visiting Dayville for the July 4th parade started chatting with me. They once rode motorcycles and suggested I ride highway 242 from Sisters, Oregon to McKenzie. His description was, "It's so twisty and the curves are so sharp that your front wheel will run into your back wheel." While I didn't actually do that, the road had the highest concentration of sharp turns of any road I was on during my trip. Scenery wasn't bad either.
I don't know why it was built, but it was interesting.
Oregon also has three sisters. In Texas the Three Sisters are the hottest road around, in Oregon the Sisters are actually volcanos. Here's two of them with lava fields stretching for miles around them and the highest concentration of Glaciers that far from the north pole.
The Goodpasture Bridge was built in the 1930s and rebuilt about 50 years later.
To get a long clear span to prevent the bridge from being washed away during spring floods, a truss system had to be built to temporarily hold up the bridge until the supporting structure could be completed. That meant construction had to wait until after the spring snow melt and had to be finished by winter. The sign said it took a twelve man crew to accomplish the task.
I stayed in a NF campground and discovered more rock art.
I don't know if this was a mistake, or someone took offense and threw one of the rocks into the river. I didn't disturb it.
Out of the high mountains and headed to John Day. I'm not sure who John Day is or was, but there's a town with his name and a town called Dayville. There's also a John Day National monument which I was encouraged to visit.
I stopped in Dayville to eat breakfast. The cook told me he was going to watch the parade and the waitress could cook for me. I decided to watch the parade and eat afterwards. For such a small town, they really had a nice parade. This guy was just cruising through town, not part of the parade. I was told I could join in the parade on my bike if I wanted to. I remember the jail scene in Easy Rider and declined.
This little girl was adamant that she wasn't going to share her ice cream.
All ages showed up.
What's a parade in the west without horses?
Need a Jeep also.
Don't rent pigs and don't spell. Presnts may have been intentional.
Old tractors driven by old men.
Old cars.
Even older cars with hand crank starters.
There was so much candy thrown from the participants in the parade that kids quit picking it up.
Back to the breakfast. While I was eating breakfast, I saw four people leave without ordering. Each left after seeing the wolf skins for sale. Wolf skins sales can't be a high percentage of sales in a restaurant. The killing of wolves is such a volatile topic that the owner of a business has to know that he's going to lose business if he sells their skins. There were only three tables inside, so I moved outside finished my coffee and wrote in my notebook at an outside table. When I was about 30 miles away from the town, I realized I had forgotten to pay. Zip back.
Zip back through this ain't bad.
Painted hills in John Day NM
A couple visiting Dayville for the July 4th parade started chatting with me. They once rode motorcycles and suggested I ride highway 242 from Sisters, Oregon to McKenzie. His description was, "It's so twisty and the curves are so sharp that your front wheel will run into your back wheel." While I didn't actually do that, the road had the highest concentration of sharp turns of any road I was on during my trip. Scenery wasn't bad either.
I don't know why it was built, but it was interesting.
Oregon also has three sisters. In Texas the Three Sisters are the hottest road around, in Oregon the Sisters are actually volcanos. Here's two of them with lava fields stretching for miles around them and the highest concentration of Glaciers that far from the north pole.
The Goodpasture Bridge was built in the 1930s and rebuilt about 50 years later.
To get a long clear span to prevent the bridge from being washed away during spring floods, a truss system had to be built to temporarily hold up the bridge until the supporting structure could be completed. That meant construction had to wait until after the spring snow melt and had to be finished by winter. The sign said it took a twelve man crew to accomplish the task.
I stayed in a NF campground and discovered more rock art.
I don't know if this was a mistake, or someone took offense and threw one of the rocks into the river. I didn't disturb it.