Burns to bend

Tanked up in Burns. Orgeon is different. No self-service gas. Every gas station has gas station attendants. You don’t get to put your own gas in. Wonder why that is. Strong filling station attendant lobby?

If you have a motorhome, and tank up at the diesel island, though, you can put your own fuel in. Wonder why that is. No filling station attendant lobby for diesel?

Sage and flowers. High desert. A very healthy high desert. We probably saw fifty raptors in a twenty-five mile stretch. The occasional shrike, raven, or magpie, but mostly hawks.

Now we are at Crown Villa RV Park in Bend. A nice park. So nice, in fact, that the guy who washes rigs here, drove up in a Hummer today.

We need a new bird. Our last new one was July 9^th, the juniper titmouse. Now it’s the middle of August. Maybe a chestnut backed chickadee. Maybe a mountain quail. Time for a new bird.