Boo-urns

Hey, everybody! We're in Burns, Oregon, or as it is also known, someplace in the middle of nowhere where we stopped because there's no other town within 150 miles of here.

We've had a pretty great couple a days, stopping in Ashland, Oregon for the Shakespeare Festival yesterday, then driving up to Crater Lake National Park today and going on a 3-mile hike, then driving to Bend, Oregon and having a really nice dinner right on the Deschutes River. Then after dinner we decided to drive east for awhile and basically drove for about two and a half hours through the desert and over the course of 150 miles saw the following:

• One nice sunset
• Two cool flashes of lightning
• One deer rushing across the highway, causing Kathy to slam on the brakes most ungracefully
• One rest area that Kathy drove right past even though I REALLY needed to pee
• Two houses
• Zero hotels
• Zero restaurants
• Zero open gas stations
• Zero signs of civilization

We had intended to drive another hundred or so miles past Burns and just try to find a hotel somewhere, but when we actually got to Burns, we were just so glad to see signs of humanity that we praised the lord and got a room here at the "America's Best Inn". Apparently, it only costs $55 a night to stay at America's best inn. I had no idea.

While we were still in Bend, we took the road trip's first official "Kathy is a Ham" picture:


I leave with you a picture of Crater Lake, which was pretty awesome, I have to say: