Day 13:  Jerome, ID to Bend, OR. (423 miles)

We got up around 7:00 and went to breakfast.  They had made-to-order omelets and eggs.  The crowd was quite different from the families and tourists we encountered in Utah.  This crowd seemed to be mainly truckers.  The weather was cloudy -- the honeymoon is over -- back to the rain.

Actually it didn't rain until just outside Bend.  We went through Boise which seemed like a piece of cake after Salt Lake City.  Then got off the Interstate at Ontario to take highway 20 back to Bend.

We went back through the Painted Hills.Teresa had gotten used to the 80mph speed in Utah and Idaho, so it seemed like we were going slow through the countryside.

We passed through Burns again.  I noticed a sign for the Paiute Indian Reservation.  Teresa told me that the Malher National Wildlife Refuge had been created from Paiute land originally.  She said that when one of the out-of-state demonstrators was speaking and demanding that the government give back their land, one of the towns folk said, "shouldn't they give it back to the Paiute Tribe?"  The demonstrator had no answer for that.  

We continued on highway 20 passing through Stinking Water Pass soon followed by Drinking Water Pass.  There must be a story there.

We arrived in Bend around 1:30.  It was a great trip.