After the festivities and seeing all of the family members off, we made sure all was clean on the condo’s and took off the next day. Our drive to was over 800 miles and planned on arriving by Friday. We wanted to go through Bend OR so as to avoid sales tax and stock up on supplies before going into WA. We went up 395 on the CA side and needing to stop for the night, we found a campground just off 395. I use the term campground loosely since I would say this is a primitive and Hunting Campground. We had to take Ramhorn road about 3 miles off the highway. Judge for yourself.
It was dark and we had no signal so it was a quite and early night. Our next stop was near or in Bend OR.
We saw some interesting landscape and there was a storm over a lake that was really awesome looking.
Then we went through a forest area that looks like it had seen some fire.
We stopped at Costco in Bend, but didn’t stock up as much as we thought we would. We went just a little north of there and parked with some trucks in a gravel lot next to Best Western. It was a peaceful night.
The next day we motored on and got to cross the Columbia River 
into WA 
near an area we went by back in June.
The bridge we had only looked at we were now going over.
There was another river and bridge to cross. We were entering into Grant County!
We actually arrived on Thursday since we were so close. 
Merry Christmas to you both!