Kit and Carol on the Road

Thursday we had planned to go to Kah-nee-ta, but the RV park was booked so we headed straight to Prineville instead. It was a long day on the road—many country roads—curves and hills and small towns and slow going. These are the highways we traveled: 82, 84, 207, 206, 19, 218, 293, 97, 26. These are the counties we passed through: Benton (WA) Umatilla (OR), Morrow, Gilliam, Wheeler, Wasco, Jefferson, Crook. Heppner is county seat of Morrow country. It was nearly wiped out by a flood in 1901 but is now a pleasant little town. The library and museum were closed. We stopped to walk the streets. Kit visited the True Value hardware and I found a Wonderful fabric shop. Other small county seats: Condon and Fossil were towns of less than 600 people. Stopped for lunch and a nap beside a road—in 45 minutes only one car went past. The GPS data indicates that we climbed a total of 13,000 feet today. (and went down about the same amount)
Add one more country seat—Prineville. (Plus Madras which we snuck through) Some chaos reigns here. Not only is there a large group in the RV park but there is a rock show and rodeo in town this weekend.