A Desolate Oregon Drive

Ontario, OR to Hawthorne, NV(click on image for a larger version in a new Tab or Window) Desolate Oregon We’ll be spending the day driving through some of the most desolate parts of the western U.S. along US Highway 95 in southwest Idaho, southeast Oregon and northern Nevada. No Cell Phone Coverage Here I enjoy driving along this route, but I wouldn’t want to break down out here; there are a few areas that still don’t have … [Read more...]

Stopping for Chicken and a Tire Check in Ontario, Oregon – Hermiston, OR to Tremonton, UT

Yesterday, after digging out and hooking our loaded trailer in Sumner, Washington, and then stopping for some fresh fruit in eastern Washington, we continued on to Hermiston, Oregon, where we stopped for the night. Today we’ll continue running our load out of Sumner bound for Hurricane, Utah after stopping for the night at the Stanfield Pilot Travel Center near Hermiston, Oregon. We’ll travel across northeastern Oregon and … [Read more...]