Day 16 - Back in Familiar territory

Greetings from East Podunk, officially and more affectionately known as Fair Oaks California. Ivan and I are home after an outstanding and delightful day yesterday. As I indicated, we decided to throw caution to the winds and drive all the way home from Burns Oregon - a distance, at least the way we went, of 623 miles. We had about a half dozen adventures yesterday, at least one was heart-stopping and a big thrill for me. It was something I thought I'd never see and happened so fast, neither Ivan nor I caught it on camera. I'm going to try and see if I can find a short clip on YouTube so you can see what I'm talking about. First I want to list the final posts that will detail our last day on our vacation trip.

First adventure - an unexpected discovery of a huge (get that thesaurus out again!) alkali lake in central Oregon which was mostly dry, but which had what seemed to be about a 6" depth of about 100 acres of water way below the highway we were on, but close to our road (does that make sense?).

Second adventure = TULELAKE NWR! I may have a couple of posts about this place which holds the highest place in my heart of places I absolutely love. We had about 4 adventures here, one of which is the amazing thing to which I alluded above.

Well, I guess that wasn't exactly dozens of exciting things to report, but I think you'll like the next few posts. First I have to see if I can find a quick video of the event we witnessed. BRB.