Our first sight-seeing stop was Shoshone Falls. It has been a pretty hot and dry summer, so these falls were not at their most spectacular, but it was still worth a view. (You can see from the linked site that the whole left waterfall wasn't even flowing when we visited.) I liked the canyon view just as much as the falls.
It was hot, so we pressed on to Boise for an easy traveling day to get the kids acclimated to being in the car longer. The next night was in Bend, Oregon, which is a really lovely mountain town on the fringe of the Eastern Oregon desert. The Deschutes River flows through town between a picturesque neighborhood and a city park, so we walked from there to downtown for our micro-brewery meal, which was pretty delicious. I was sad we had to miss the Bend Ale Trail, which has a passport to 14 breweries across town, but it leaves something to do on our return someday. :)
A random turn off the highway in search of a bathroom the next day led to some of my favorite scenery deep inside the Willamette National Forest.
A lunch stop in Corvallis and quick stroll on the Oregon State campus were our last stops before the kids' first glimpse of the ocean. (To be continued...)
I just had to post a picture of this. Problems you don't foresee when your toes are longer than a centimeter! Peekaboo!
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